Gigatitan

Gigatitan
Temporal range: Carnian
Fossil of G. vulgaris
Life reconstruction of G. vulgaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: †Titanoptera
Clade: †Gigatitanidae
Genus: †Gigatitan
Sharov, 1968
Type species
Gigatitan vulgaris
Sharov, 1968
Species[1]
  • G. vulgaris Sharov, 1968
  • G. magnificus Sharov, 1968
  • G. extensus Sharov, 1968
  • G. ovatus Sharov, 1968
  • G. similis Sharov, 1968

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Béthoux, O. (2007). "Cladotypic Taxonomy Applied: Titanopterans are Orthopterans". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 65 (2): 135–156. ISSN 1863-7221. S2CID 8775265.
  3. ^ Voigt, Sebastian; Spindler, Frederik; Fischer, Jan; Kogan, Ilja; Buchwitz, Michael (2007-09-26). "An extraordinary lake basin – the Madygen fossil lagerstaette (Middle to Upper Triassic, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia)". Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft. 36.
  4. ^ Gorochov, A.V. (2007). "The first representative of the suborder Mesotitanina from the Paleozoic and notes on the system and evolution of the order Titanoptera (Insecta: Polyneoptera)". Paleontological Journal. 41 (6): 621–625. doi:10.1134/S0031030107060056. ISSN 1555-6174. S2CID 85364942.