Titanites

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Titanites
Temporal range: Tithonian [1]
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Titanites giganteus.JPG
Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England, c. 147 Ma, at the Natural History Museum
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Titanites

S.S. Buckman 1921
Species
  • T. anguiformisWimbledon and Cope, 1978
  • T. chilensisBiro-Bagoczky, 1976
  • T. cingulatus(de Haan, 1825)
  • T. giganteus(Sowerby, 1818)
  • T. occidentalisFrebold, 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.

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Description

A pair of Titanites giganteus fossils at Wollaton Hall At Wollaton Hall 2023 052.jpg
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.

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References

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