Biology:Titanoides
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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals
| Titanoides | |
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| Titanoides primaevus | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
- ↑ "Pantodonta". After McKenna & Bell (1997) and Alroy (2002). http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/cimolesta/pantodonta.html.
- ↑ "Titanoides". https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndfossil/poster/PDF/Titanoides.pdf.
- ↑ "Pantodonts, uintatheres and xenungulates: The first large herbivorous mammals". http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/large_herbivores.htm.
External links
- "Ferae Past and Present (Phylogenetic tree)" at Okapiland
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