Table 2. Largest Phanerozoic members of major clades not already listed in Table 1.
Category | Clade | Age | Size | |
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Terrestrial | Birgus latro | Crustacea | Recent | 300 mm[164] |
Pebasiconcha immanis | Gastropoda | Middle Miocene | 256 mm[165] | |
Eryops macrocephalus | Amphibia (aquatic) | Early Permian | 2 m[166] | |
Megalania prisca | Squamata | Pleistocene | 2000 kg[167] | |
Geochelone sp. | Chelonia | Recent | 1000 kg[97] | |
Argentavis magnificens | Aves (flying) | Late Miocene | 70 kg[168] | |
Aepyornis maximus | Aves (non-flying) | Holocene | 275 kg[169] | |
Marine | Isotelus rex | Trilobita | Late Ordovician | 700 mm[164] |
Jaekelopterus rhenaniae | Chelicerata (and Arthropoda) | Late Oligocene | 2.5 m[170,171] | |
Jasus edwardsii | Crustacea | Recent | 60 cm[172] | |
Odontodactylus scyllarus | Crustacea | Recent | 60 cm[164] | |
Campanile parisiensis | Gastropoda | Middle Eocene | 1 m[8] | |
Cryptochiton stelleri | Polyplacophora | Recent | 350 mm[3] | |
Dunkleosteus terrelli | Placodermi | Late Devonian | 7 m[173] | |
Carcharocles megalodon | Chondrichthyes | Middle Miocene-Late Pliocene | 18m[135] | |
Rhincodon typus | Chondrichthyes | Recent | 18 m[174] | |
Archelon sp. | Chelonia | Maastrichtian | 4 m[175] |