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Description

Platybodus Gigas meaning: "wide crooked tooth"
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order : hybodontiforms
Family: megabodontidae <--placeholder
Appearance: 175 Mya
Extinction: 120 Mya
Platybodus is the second largest member of the megabodontidae with males reaching lengths 5-6.5m/15-21ft and 7-8.5m/22-27ft for females, and can weigh more than 1000-2550kg /1.5-2.5t for males 3700-5000kg/3.7-5t for females.
Platybodus has large eyes a heavily muscled trunk with very well developed tail suggesting an mesopelagic lifestyle.
This fish as displayed with the exceptionally large male has a pair of red fleshy "tentacles" that can reach up to 2.5meters in some specimens which is used for mating displays.

Description

Platybodus Gigas meaning: "wide crooked tooth"
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order : hybodontiforms
Family: megabodontidae <--placeholder
Appearance: 175 Mya
Extinction: 120 Mya
Platybodus is the second largest member of the megabodontidae with males reaching lengths 5-6.5m/15-21ft and 7-8.5m/22-27ft for females, and can weigh more than 1000-2550kg /1.5-2.5t for males 3700-5000kg/3.7-5t for females.
Platybodus has large eyes a heavily muscled trunk with very well developed tail suggesting an mesopelagic lifestyle.
This fish as displayed with the exceptionally large male has a pair of red fleshy "tentacles" that can reach up to 2.5meters in some specimens which is used for mating displays.