Baena Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Eocene, 70–40 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Shell of B. arenosa (specimen AMNH 1112) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Family: | †Baenidae |
Clade: | †Baenodda |
(unranked): | †Eubaeninae |
Genus: | †Baena Leidy, 1870 |
Type species | |
†Baena arenosa Leidy, 1870 | |
Species | |
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Baena (pronounced ba-en-na) is an extinct genus of baenid turtles that inhabited North America during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene. The genus name is thought to originate from a Native American language, possibly the Arapaho word for turtle, be’enoo.
Fossils of Baena have been found in locations including Kirtland Formation, Campanian New Mexico (B. sp.) (Cretaceous) and Ravenscrag Formation, Maastrichtian Canada (B. sp.) (Cretaceous).
References
- J. Leidy. 1870. . Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1870:123-124
- ^ Joyce, Walter G.; Lyson, Tyler R. (2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Baenidae". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (2): 147–183. doi:10.3374/014.056.0203. ISSN 0079-032X.
- "Baena Leidy, 1870". www.gbif.org. GBIF. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- "Baena". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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