Megateuthis
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| Megateuthis Temporal range:
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| Fossilised guards of Megateuthis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | †Belemnitida |
| Family: | †Megateuthididae |
| Genus: | †Megateuthis Bayle, 1878 |
| Type species | |
| †Belemnites giganteus (von Schlotheim, 1820) by subsequent designation (Douvillé, 1879, p. 91)
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Megateuthis is the largest known belemnite genus which lived during the Early to Middle Jurassic, between the Toarcian and Bajocian age. The type species M. suevica, whose junior synonym is M. gigantea, measured around 2.17 metres (7.1 ft) long, and the largest species M. elliptica possibly reached up to 3.11 metres (10.2 ft) long.[2]
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