Titanites
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
{{italic title}}{{Distinguish|Titanis}}{{Taxobox
| name = Titanites
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tithonian|ref={{cite journal
| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| access-date = 2014-05-28 }}}}
| subclassis = Ammonoidea
| image = Titanites giganteus.JPG
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England, {{circa}} 147 Ma, at the Natural History Museum
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Cephalopoda
| familia = Dorsoplanitidae
| genus = Titanites
| genus_authority = S.S. Buckman 1921
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = * T. anguiformis Wimbledon and Cope, 1978
- T. chilensis Biro-Bagoczky, 1976
- T. cingulatus (de Haan, 1825)
- T. giganteus (Sowerby, 1818)
| synonyms =
}}
Titanites is an extinct ammonite cephalopod genus within the family Dorsoplanitidae, that lived during the late Tithonian of the Late Jurassic.{{cite journal
| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| access-date = 2014-05-28 }} Its fossils have been found in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Description
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Species of the genus Titanites can reach large sizes, with a diameter over {{convert|60|cm|ft}} for Titanites giganteus and {{convert|90|cm|ft}} for T. anguiformis.{{Cite journal |last=Wimbledon |first=W. A. |last2=Cope |first2=J. C. W. |date=1978 |title=The ammonite faunas of the English Portland Beds and the zones of the Portlandian Stage |url=https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/gsjgs.135.2.0183 |journal=Journal of the Geological Society |language=en |volume=135 |issue=2 |pages=183–190 |doi=10.1144/gsjgs.135.2.0183 |issn=0016-7649|url-access=subscription }} Much larger species, Titanites occidentalis with estimated diameter about {{convert|137|cm|ft}} is reassigned to genus Corbinites.{{Cite journal |last=Poulton |first=Terence P. |date=2023 |title=Corbinites (Subfamily Lithacoceratinae), a new genus for the giant western Canadian Late Kimmeridgian or Tithonian (Late Jurassic) ammonite Titanites occidentalis Frebold |url=https://vjs.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/34062 |journal=Volumina Jurassica |language=en |volume=21 |pages=27–38 |issn=1731-3708}} They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
See also
References
- [http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=7086819 Universal Biological Indexer]
- [https://www.paleodb.org The Paleobiology Database]
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Category:Jurassic animals of Asia
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