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 |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Ammonitida |
Suborder: | Ammonitina |
Superfamily: | Perisphinctoidea |
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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