Image: Titanopteran insect, Clatrotitan andersoni

Titanopteran insect, Clatrotitan andersoni. Middle Triassic, 240 million years ago.

Illustrator:

Anne Musser

Rights:

© Australian Museum

Additional information

This giant insect, belonging to the extinct group Titanoptera, is distantly related to modern dragonflies and mayflies.

Last Updated: 13 August 2009

Tags insects, dragonflies, mayflies, ancestor, Middle Triassic, dinosaur world,