Titanites Temporal range:
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Titanites giganteus – Jurassic from Dorset England, c. 147 Ma, at the Natural History Museum | |
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Family: | Dorsoplanitidae
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Genus: | Titanites S.S. Buckman 1921
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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.
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.