- Titanoides
Taxobox
name = "Titanoides"
fossil_range =Paleocene
status = fossil
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Pantodonta
familia =Titanoideidae
genus = "Titanoides"
genus_authority = Gidley, 1917
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "T. primaevus" (type)
* "T. gidleyi"
* "T. looki"
* "T. major"
* "T. nanus""Titanoides" is an extinct genus of pantodont mammal. It was about 5 feet long and weighed between 200 and 300 pounds.
"Titanoides" was one of the early Tertiary browsing mammals called pantodonts. Their limbs were short and stout, and they were bear-like in appearance. Some were the size of a rhinoceros. Even though they had huge canine teeth they were herbivores. Their feet possessed five, clawed digits. "Titanoides" was the largest mammal that inhabited North Dakota 60 million years ago when western North Dakota was a subtropical swampland. The main predators at the time were crocodiles and giant waterfowl, and it is possible that "Titanoides" sometimes fell prey to those reptiles and birds.Fact|date=June 2007
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