Megalodontidae Temporal range:
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Fossil of Megalodon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | † Megalodontida |
Superfamily: | † Megalodontoidea |
Family: | †
Megalodontidae Morris & Lycett, 1853 |
Genera | |
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Megalodontidae is an extinct family of bivalve molluscs that reportedly lived from the Devonian to the Jurassic period.
A family of insects was also previously called "Megalodontidae", containing the sawfly genus Megalodontes. In order to remove the homonymy, that family has been renamed Megalodontesidae. [1]