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Megalodontidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Rank
  
Family

Subclass
  
Heterodonta

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Rudists

Megalodontidae

Similar
  
Megalodontes, Rudists, Dicerocardiidae, Heterodonta, Blasticotomidae

Megalodontidae is an extinct family of bivalve Molluscs that reportedly lived from the Devonian to the Jurassic Period.

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Nomenclature

A family of insects has also been called "Megalodontidae", containing the sawfly genus Megalodontes. In order to remove the homonymy, that family has been renamed Megalodontesidae.

Genera

  • Conchodon
  • Gemmellarodus di Stefano 1912
  • Megalodon Agassiz 1843
  • Neomegalodon Guembel 1864
  • Pachyrisma
  • Protomegalodon
  • Pterocardia Bayan 1874
  • Quemocuomegalodon Yao et al. 2003
  • Rhaetomegalodon
  • Triadomegalodon Vegh-Neubrandt 1974
  • References

    Megalodontidae Wikipedia