Titanites

Titanites Temporal range: Tithonian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England, c. 147 Ma, at the Natural History Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Family:
Genus:	Titanites S.S. Buckman 1921
Species
T. anguiformis Wimbledon and Cope, 1978 T. chilensis Biro-Bagoczky, 1976 T. cingulatus (de Haan, 1825) T. giganteus (Sowerby, 1818) T. occidentalis Frebold, 1957

Titanites is an extinct ammonite cephalopod genus within the family , that lived during the late Tithonian 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[]

• Cephalopod size

References[]

• Universal Biological Indexer
• The Paleobiology Database

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