| Gigatitan Temporal range:
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| Fossil of G. vulgaris | |
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| Life reconstruction of G. vulgaris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | †Titanoptera |
| Clade: | †Gigatitanidae |
| Genus: | †Gigatitan Sharov, 1968 |
| Type species | |
| Gigatitan vulgaris Sharov, 1968
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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]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.