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431 / Paleozoic
Titanokorys
Titanokorys gainesi
An enormous head shield covered most of this bottom-feeding radiodont.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 506 million years ago
- Final stage
- Middle Cambrian
- Geographic range
- Continental-slope seafloor · Canada
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Titanokorys?
Titanokorys (Titanokorys gainesi) was an extinct organism known from About 506 million years ago, with a range in Continental-slope seafloor · Canada.
Life and ecology
Short rake-like appendages disturbed sediment in search of buried food.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Titanokorys disappear?
Cambrian ecosystem turnover is possible context, but it does not establish why this specialized branch disappeared.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Titanokorys?
Head shields, frontal appendages, mouthparts and bodies constrain its proportions.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS