Titanoides

Titanoides is an extinct genus of pantodont mammal which lived in western North America during the late Paleocene. It was a medium-sized pantodont which weighed up to 150 kg (330 lb). It was one of the largest mammals in its habitat, a tropical swampland where the main predators were semiaquatic reptiles such as crocodilians and choristoderes.

Titanoides

Zhombah · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TitanoideidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Pantodonta
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Pantodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Pantodonta

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 57.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 40 occurrencesPaleocene — about 40 of 40 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya57.5 Mya66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

40 occurrences of Titanoides on record, most of them in the Paleocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

40 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

10 formations

Fort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.32°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.73°N, 108.47°WFort Union — 44.85°N, 108.74°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WSentinel Butte — 47.70°N, 103.40°WSentinel Butte — 47.50°N, 101.20°WSentinel Butte — 48.40°N, 103.50°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WBlack Peaks — 29.46°N, 103.15°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WMelville — 45.80°N, 109.80°WSlope — 46.70°N, 101.80°WBullion Creek — 46.40°N, 102.30°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°W"Fort Union No. 3 (Melville) — 45.80°N, 109.80°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Titanoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Titanoides and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Titanoides and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Titanoides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

20 references

Each of the 40 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 8 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Titanoides

Credit
Zhombah
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Titanoides primaevus · fmnh:pm:8655

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTitanoideidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gidley 1917