Megatypus

Megatypus
Temporal range: Lower Permian
Megatypus schucherti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: †Meganisoptera
Family: †Meganeuridae
Genus: †Megatypus
Species
  • †M. ingentissimus
  • †M. parvus
  • †M. schucherti
  • †M. vetustus

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, its single wing length is 19.5 cm (7.7 in).[1]

  1. ^ Gand, G.; Nel, A. N.; Fleck, G.; Garrouste, R. (2008-01-01). "The Odonatoptera of the Late Permian Lodève Basin (Insecta)". Journal of Iberian Geology (in Spanish). 34 (1): 115–122. ISSN 1886-7995.