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]

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

Type species
Behemoth lapideus
Species
  • B. lapideus Buckman, 1921
  • B. megasthene Buckman, 1921
  • B. groenlandicus Spath 1936

Description

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

References

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