Behemoth (ammonite)

{{Short description|Genus of Jurassic ammonite mollusc}}

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{{Taxobox

|name = Behemoth

|fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tithonian}}

|image = Behemoth lapideus.JPG

|image_caption = Comparisons of B. lapideus, B. megasthene, Titanites, and Brachypterygius

|regnum = Animalia

|phylum = Mollusca

|classis = Cephalopoda

|subclassis = Ammonoidea

|ordo = Ammonitida

|subordo = Ammonitina

|superfamilia = Perisphinctoidea

|familia = Dorsoplanitidae

|genus = Behemoth

|genus_authority = S.S. Buckman, 1921

|type_species = Behemoth lapideus

|type_species_authority =

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision =

• B. lapideus Buckman, 1921
• B. megasthene Buckman, 1921
• B. groenlandicus Spath 1936

|synonyms =

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