Biology:Behemoth (ammonite)

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Short description: Genus of Jurassic ammonite mollusc


Behemoth
Temporal range: Tithonian
Behemoth lapideus.JPG
Comparisons of B. lapideus, B. megasthene, Titanites, and Brachypterygius
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Dorsoplanitidae
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Behemoth

S.S. Buckman, 1921
Type species
Behemoth lapideus
Species
  • B. lapideus Buckman, 1921
  • B. megasthene Buckman, 1921
  • B. 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]

Description

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

References

  1. Birkelund, Tove, John H. Callomon, and Franz T. Frjirsich. "The stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments of Milne Land."

Wikidata ☰ Q22286799 entry