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While the earliest C. megalodon remains were reported from late Oligocene strata, around 28 million years old, a more reliable date for the origin of the species is the early Miocene, about 23 million years ago.
It is a prehistoric shark that lived (literally) a few billion years ago. It weighed about the same as three school buses. It jaw size was about three times as big as a gâ¦reat whites 0.o There are rumors going on that there is still one in the world... *** *** *** The megalodon shark (C. megalodon) did not lived billions of years ago. It appeared in the fossil registers about approximately 28 millions of years ago, during the late Oligocene, and the more recent fossil found is a tooth from the Calabrian stage of the Pleistocene epoch, only to 1.5 million years ago.