Megamastax
| Megamastax Temporal range: Late Silurian, | |
|---|---|
| Megamastax fossils and estimated body length charts | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Osteichthyes |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Genus: | †Megamastax Choo et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
| †Megamastax amblyodus Choo et al., 2014 | |
Megamastax (meaning "big mouth") is a genus of lobe-finned fish which lived during the late Silurian period, about 423 million years ago, in China. Before the discovery of Megamastax, it was thought that jawed vertebrates (gnathostomes) were limited in size and variation before the Devonian period. Megamastax is known only from jaw bones and it is estimated that it reached about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) long.