Protitanops

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| image = Protitanops clarnensis.jpg

| image_caption = Protitanops clarnensis

| genus = Protitanops

| parent_authority = Stock, 1936

| species = curryi

| authority = Stock, 1936

| display_parents = 4

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Protitanops curryi is an extinct species 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 Megacerops 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 Megacerops.{{cite journal|url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5913 |title=Species taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|issue=311 | first=Matthew C | last=Mihlbachler |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |hdl=2246/5913|access-date=4 September 2013}}