Behemoth (ammonite)

Behemoth; Temporal range: Tithonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Comparisons of B. lapideus, B. megasthene, Titanites, and Brachypterygius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ammonitida
Suborder:	Ammonitina
Superfamily:	Perisphinctoidea
Family:	Dorsoplanitidae
Genus:	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 species like B. lapideus.

^ 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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