Megatypus Temporal range: Carboniferous |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Superorder: | Odonatoptera |
Order: | †Meganisoptera |
Family: | †Meganeuridae |
Genus: | †Megatypus |
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Megatypus is an extinct genus of insect of the order Meganisoptera. Species in this genus were much larger than their modern relatives, dragonflies and damselflies, and reached a wingspan of 70 centimeters (2.3 ft).