Tithonianadj.n.

1869 Nature 2 Dec. 143/2 Professor Oppel himself considered that his Tithonian stage brought the jurassic period a step forward in time, whilst M. Hébert regarded the deposits studied by him as carrying the lower part of the cretaceous formation further back.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 800 At the top of the Alpine Jurassic series an important group of deposits occurs to which the name of Tithonian stage was given by Oppel.

1941 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 239 665 The comparison..with the Cretaceous pterodactyloid and the Liassic and Tithonian rhamphorhynchoid brains.

1986 Micropaleontology 32 116/2 Sethocapsa pseudouterculus commonly occurs in the upper Tithonian radiolarian beds.

2007 D. Pol & Z. Gasparini in Z. Gasparini et al. Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles v. 117 The Jurassic record of Patagonian crocodyliforms is exclusively formed by marine forms found..principally in the Tithonian levels of the Vaca Muerta Formation.

1869 Nature 2 Dec. 143/2 The question to be settled is where, if anywhere, in this section the line of division between the jurassic and cretaceous formations is to be drawn,..dividing it into a jurassic and a cretaceous Tithonian.

1871 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 27 208 The deposition of the Wealden strata..commenced before the close of the Oolitic period; it continued during the whole of the Tithonian.

1913 Geol. Mag. 5th Decade 10 346 (title) Psalidocrinus: a new genus of Crinoidea from the Tithonian of Stramberg.

1975 Nature 13 Mar. 108/1 Two different directions have been obtained from sediments in the lower and upper parts of the Morrison formation (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian respectively).

2007 M. S. de la Fuente in Z. Gasparini et al. Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles iii. 76 The history of Patagonian turtles continues with paratethysean panpleurodires (Notoemys) and eucryptodires (Neusticemys) from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of the Neuquén Basin.