| Clatrotitan | |
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| Forewing ofClatrotitan andersoni (Scale bar: 10 mm) | |
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| Speculative diagrammatic reconstruction, missing elements reconstructed afterGigatitan | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | †Titanoptera |
| Family: | †Mesotitanidae |
| Genus: | †Clatrotitan McKeown, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| Clatrotitan andersoni McKeown, 1937 | |
| Species | |
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Clatrotitan is an extinct genus oftitanopteraninsect, known from theTriassic ofAustralia.[1] It is originally described from a species,C. andersoni, then later study considered thatMesotitan scullyi as species ofClatrotitan too. But another study synonymizedMesotitan andClatrotitan. A study in 2021 proposed to keep the two generaClatrotitan andMesotitan separated.[2]C. andersoni had a large forewing, which was 13.8 centimetres (5.4 in) long.[3]
