Titanites

Titanites Temporal range: Tithonian[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England, c. 147 Ma, at the Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Family:	Dorsoplanitidae
Genus:	Titanites S.S. Buckman 1921
Species
T. anguiformis Wimbledon and Cope, 1978 T. chilensis Biro-Bagoczky, 1976 T. cingulatus (de Haan, 1825) T. giganteus (Sowerby, 1818) T. occidentalis Frebold, 1957

Titanites is an extinct ammonite cephalopod genus within the family Dorsoplanitidae, that lived during the late Tithonian of the Late Jurassic.^[1] Its fossils have been found in Canada and the United Kingdom .

Description

A pair of Titanites giganteus fossils at Wollaton Hall

Species of the genus Titanites can reach large sizes, with a diameter of about 1.37 m for Titanites occidentalis. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

See also

• Cephalopod size

References

• Universal Biological Indexer
• The Paleobiology Database

Wikidata ☰ Q7809833 entry

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