Behemoth (ammonite)
| Behemoth Temporal range: Tithonian[1] | |
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| 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 | |
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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 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ 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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