Behemoth (ammonite)

Behemoth
Temporal range: Tithonian[1]
Comparisons of B. lapideus, B. megasthene, Titanites, and Brachypterygius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Ammonoidea
Family: Dorsoplanitidae
Genus: Behemoth
S.S. Buckman, 1921
Type species
Behemoth lapideus
Species
  • B. lapideus Buckman, 1921
  • B. megasthene Buckman, 1921
  • groenlandicus Spath 1936

Behemoth is an extinct ammonite cephalopod genus within the family Dorsoplanitidae, that lived during the upper Tithonian stage of Late Jurassic Europe and Greenland.[1][2]

Description

Behemoth ammonites grew fairly large, with a shell diameter over one meter in species like B. lapideus.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ↑ Birkelund, Tove, John H. Callomon, and Franz T. Frjirsich. "The stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments of Milne Land."
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