Titanites

Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Titanites

Temporal range: Tithonian[1]

PreЄ

Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England, c. 147 Ma, at the Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Mollusca

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Cephalopoda

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Ammonoidea

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Dorsoplanitidae

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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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). Sepkoski's Online Genus Database. http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class. Retrieved 2014-05-28.

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*[c.]: circa