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n. Any of a group of extinct sharks from the Oligocene to Pleistocene epochs
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Megalodon ( , ; meaning "big tooth", from and (odoús), "tooth"—whose stem is odont-, as seen in the genitive case form , odóntos) is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 2.6 million years ago, during the Cenozoic Era (early Miocene to end of Pliocene).
The taxonomic assignment of C. megalodon has been debated for nearly a century, and is still under dispute. The two major interpretations are Carcharodon megalodon (under family Lamnidae) or Carcharocles megalodon (under the family Otodontidae). Consequently, the scientific name of this species is commonly abbreviated C. megalodon in the literature.
Regarded as one of the largest and most powerful predators in vertebrate history, C. megalodon probably had a profound impact on the structure of marine communities. Fossil remains suggest that this giant shark reached a length of , and also indicate that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. Scientists suggest that C. megalodon looked like a stockier version of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
The tooth of C. megalodon is the state fossil of North Carolina.
Megalodon is a 2004 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
Megalodon or C. megalodon, is a giant prehistoric shark.
Megalodon may also refer to:
- Megalodon (bivalve), a genus of fossil bivalves
- Megalodon (film), a 2004 action film
- Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, a 2013 Discovery Channel mockumentary
- Megalodon Collective, Norwegian jazz group
- "Megalodon", a song on the Mastodon album Leviathan
- A make of modern scuba diving rebreather
Megalodon is an extinct genus of bivalve Molluscs that reportedly lived from the Devonian to the Jurassic Period. It is not clear, however, that all the fossils assigned to Megalodon from that span of time really belong in the same genus. Jurassic relatives of Megalodon such as Pachyrisma grande were closely related to the rudists.
Usage examples of "megalodon".
Below the name, a picture of himself holding the largest tooth of Carcharodon megalodon ever found.
Above him, Carcharodon megalodon glided majestically through the clear water, its seemingly unending tail beating hypnotically from side to side, the great pectoral fins cutting the current like hydrofoils.
The closest ancestor we can find for it is something called Carcharodon megalodon, a fish that existed maybe thirty or forty thousand years ago.