Titanites
| Titanites Temporal range: Tithonian[1] | |
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| Titanites giganteus β Jurassic from Dorset England, c. 147 mya, at the Natural History Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Ammonoidea |
| Family: | Dorsoplanitidae |
| Genus: | Titanites Buckman 1921 |
Titanites is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the subclass Cephalopoda and family Dorsoplanitidae, that lived during the upper Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic.[1]
Description
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
References
- β 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.