Behemoth (ammonite)
Appearance
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Genus: | Behemoth S.S. Buckman, 1921
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Behemoth lapideus | |
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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]
Description
Behemoth ammonites grew fairly large, with a shell diameter over one meter in the type species, B. lapideus.
References
- ^ Birkelund, Tove, John H. Callomon, and Franz T. Frjirsich. "The stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sediments of Milne Land."