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Clatrotitan
Extinct species of winged insect / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clatrotitan is an extinct genus of titanopteran insect, known from the Triassic of Australia.[1] It is originally described from a species, C. andersoni, then later study considered that Mesotitan scullyi as species of Clatrotitan too. But another study synonymized Mesotitan and Clatrotitan. A study in 2021 proposed to keep the two genera Clatrotitan and Mesotitan separated.[2] C. andersoni had a large forewing, which was 13.8 centimetres (5.4 in) long.[3]
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Clatrotitan | |
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Forewing of Clatrotitan andersoni (Scale bar: 10 mm) | |
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Speculative diagrammatic reconstruction, missing elements reconstructed after Gigatitan | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | †Titanoptera |
Family: | †Mesotitanidae |
Genus: | †Clatrotitan McKeown, 1937 |
Type species | |
Clatrotitan andersoni McKeown, 1937 | |
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