Biology:Titanoides

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammals

Titanoides
Temporal range: Late Paleocene, 59–56 Ma
Titanoides primaevus 2.jpg
Titanoides primaevus
Scientific classification e
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
Species[1]
  • T. gidleyi Jepsen, 1930
  • T. looki Patterson, 1939
  • T. major Simons, 1960
  • T. nanus Gingerich. 1996
  • T. primaevus Gidley, 1917

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]

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