| 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]
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