Megalodontidae

Megalodontidae Temporal range:
Fossil of Megalodon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	†Megalodontida
Superfamily:	†Megalodontoidea
Family:	†Megalodontidae Morris & Lycett, 1853
Genera
See text

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

Nomenclature

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.

Genera

• †Conchodon
• †Gemmellarodus di Stefano, 1912
• †Megalodon Sowerby, 1827
• †Neomegalodon Guembel, 1864
• †Pachyrisma
• †Protomegalodon
• †Pterocardia Bayan, 1874
• †Quemocuomegalodon Yao et al. 2003
• †Rhaetomegalodon
• †Triadomegalodon Vegh-Neubrandt, 1974

Gallery

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  Triassic to Jurassic-aged Megalodontid fossil from Elet Island in Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines. P20 coin for scale.
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  Another specimen of a Megalodontid fossil from Elet Island in Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines