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| Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England,c. 147 Ma, at theNatural History Museum | |
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| Genus: | Titanites S.S. Buckman 1921 |
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Titanites is an extinctammonitecephalopod genus within thefamilyDorsoplanitidae, that lived during the lateTithonian of the LateJurassic.[1] Its fossils have been found inCanada and theUnited Kingdom.
Species of the genusTitanites can reach large sizes, with a diameter over 60 centimetres (2.0 ft) forTitanites giganteus and 90 centimetres (3.0 ft) forT. anguiformis.[2] Much larger species,Titanites occidentalis with estimated diameter about 137 centimetres (4.49 ft) is reassigned to genusCorbinites.[3] They were fast-movingnektonic carnivores.
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