Megalodontidae
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| Megalodontidae Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil of Megalodon | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | †Megalodontida |
| Superfamily: | †Megalodontoidea |
| Family: | †Megalodontidae Morris & Lycett, 1853 |
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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.[2]
