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Behemoth (ammonite)

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Genus of Jurassic ammonite mollusc

Behemoth
Temporal range: Tithonian Preκž’ κž’ 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.

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."
Taxon identifiers
Behemoth


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