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Megatypus Temporal range: Carboniferous |
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| 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).