Clathrotitan
Extinct species of winged insect
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Clathrotitan, also called as Clatrotitan[1] is an extinct genus of titanopteran insect, known from the Triassic of Australia.[2] It is originally described from a species, C. andersoni, then later study considered that Mesotitan scullyi as species of Clathrotitan too, synonymizing C. andersoni to C. scullyi. But another study synonymized Mesotitan and Clathrotitan. A study in 2021 proposed to keep the two genera Clathrotitan and Mesotitan separated, keeping Mesotitan only include type species M. giganteus and keeping two species Clathrotitan.[3] A 2024 study supported to synonymize C. scullyi and C. andersoni.[1] C. andersoni had a large forewing, which was 13.8 centimetres (5.4 in) long.[4]
| Clathrotitan Temporal range: | |
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| Forewing of Clathrotitan andersoni (Scale bar: 10 mm) | |
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| Speculative diagrammatic reconstruction, missing elements reconstructed after Gigatitan | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | †Titanoptera |
| Family: | †Mesotitanidae |
| Genus: | †Clathrotitan McKeown, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| Clathrotitan andersoni McKeown, 1937 | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Clatrotitan McKeown, 1937 (misspelled) | |