Protitanops

Taxobox
name = "Protitanops"
status = fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Perissodactyla
familia = Brontotheriidae
genus = "Protitanops"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "P. curryi" (type)

"Protitanops" ("Before Titan's Face") was a genus of brontothere that lived during the Eocene, in the Western United States, especially in Death Valley, California, where the best specimens of the species "P. curryi" have been found. It bore a strong resemblance to "Brontops" brontotheres with its knob-shaped horns. However, the position of the horns differed in "Protitanops", in that they pointed straight up, rather than more forwards, like in "Brontops".