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    Megateuthis is the largest known belemnite genus which lived during the Early to Middle Jurassic, between the Toarcian and Bajocian age. The type species...
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    zone (nearshore) and fed off the seafloor. The largest belemnite known, Megateuthis elliptica, would have measured up to 3.11 metres (10.2 ft) in total body...
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    (Loligo) hartingii Architeuthis japonica Architeuthis kirkii Architeuthis (Megateuthis) martensii, North Pacific giant squid Architeuthis physeteris Architeuthis...
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    pointed end of the guard facing backward. The guard of the belemnoid Megateuthis gigantea, which is found in Europe and Asia, can measure up to 46 centimetres...
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    Fossilised guards of the Jurassic belemnites Megateuthis gigantea (top two) and Megateuthis aalensis...
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    300 suckers. 28 1873 Yedo [Tokyo] fishmarket, Japan {NWP} Purchased Megateuthis martensii Hilgendorf, 1880; Nomen spurium 'Entire', missing head, "abdominal...
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    diameter up to around 2 m (6 ft 7 in). The largest known belemnite was Megateuthis gigantea, reaching about 50 and 700 mm (2.0 and 27.6 in) in maximum diameter...
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  • "Paracenoceras" calloviense Oppel (1857). New estimates for the body size of Megateuthis, including estimates of full body length of up to 2.17 m in M. suevica...
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    Gervillella Goniomya literata Homomya Lockeia? Lytoceras cf. eudesianum Megateuthis suevica Nautilida indet. Parkinsonia (Oraniceras) fretensis Pleuromya...
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  • Manis gigantea, the giant pangolin, a mammal species found in Africa Megateuthis gigantea, the largest known belemnite species found in Europe and Asia...
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