Titanites

Titanites; Temporal range: Tithonian 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:	Dorsoplanitidae
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 Dorsoplanitidae, that lived during the late Tithonian of the Late Jurassic.^[1] Its fossils have been found in Canada and the United Kingdom

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.

^ ^a ^b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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