Manteoceras pratensis Cook, 1926

Mihlbachler, Matthew C., 2008, Species Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Biogeography of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia: Perissodactyla), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 311 (1), pp. 1-475 : 337

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2008)501[1:stpabo]2.0.co;2
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scientific name	Manteoceras pratensis Cook, 1926
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Treatment

HOLOTYPE: DMNH 489 About DMNH , a juvenile mandible with right and left adult incisors, c (unerupted), dp2–dp4, and right m1 (unerupted).

TYPE LOCALITY: DMNH locality 227, Two bar Spring, 1/ 4 mile north of Sand Wash Basin, Moffat County, Colorado.

AGE: Middle Eocene (early Uintan land mammal ‘‘age’’).

DETERMINATION: Nomen dubium, holotype is an unidentifiable juvenile specimen.

REMARKS

Manteoceras pratensis is based upon a partial juvenile mandible with deciduous premolars. Cook (1926) did not realize that the premolars, which formed a part of his diagnosis, were deciduous. The mandible, DMNH 489, could belong to a number of species of a similar geologic age.