megalodon

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See also: mégalodon and Megalodon

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos, big) + ὀδών (odṓn, tooth); coined (as a specific epithet) by Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz in 1843; equivalent to megalo- +‎ -don.

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A giant Megalodon tooth with great white shark teeth

megalodon (plural megalodons)

  1. A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139:
      Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.

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