Titanoides
Appearance
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Titanoides Temporal range: Late Paleocene,
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Titanoides primaevus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Pantodonta |
Superfamily: | †Pantolambdoidea |
Family: | †Titanoideidae Patterson, 1934 |
Genus: | †Titanoides Gidley, 1917 |
Type species | |
†Titanoides primaevus Gidley, 1917
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Titanoides is an extinct genus of pantodont mammal that lived in North Dakota and as far north as central Alberta. They were up to 3 m (9.8 ft) long and up to 150 kg (330 lb) in weight, being the largest mammals of their habitat, a tropical swampland where the main predators were crocodiles. They had a bear-like appearance with huge canines, short limbs and five clawed digits; however, they were herbivores and probably had traits and attributes more similar to diprotodontids.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pantodonta". After McKenna & Bell (1997) and Alroy (2002). Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ "Titanoides" (PDF).
- ^ "Pantodonts, uintatheres and xenungulates: The first large herbivorous mammals". Paleocene mammals of the world.
External links
[edit]- "Ferae Past and Present (Phylogenetic tree)" at Okapiland