Gigatitan
Extinct genus of insects / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gigatitan is an extinct genus of titanopteran insect that lived in Kyrgyzstan during the Triassic period. The type species is G. vulgaris, described by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov in 1968.[2] Fossils of Gigatitan have been found in the Madygen Formation.[3] It is the type genus of the family Gigatitanidae, in which the closely related Nanotitan and Ootitan are also included.[2][4]
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Gigatitan | |
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Fossil of G. vulgaris | |
Life reconstruction of G. vulgaris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | †Titanoptera |
Clade: | †Gigatitanidae |
Genus: | †Gigatitan Sharov, 1968 |
Type species | |
Gigatitan vulgaris Sharov, 1968 | |
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