Titanoides
Extinct genus of mammals
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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]
| Titanoides Temporal range: Late Paleocene, | |
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| Life restoration of T. primaevus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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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