Baena Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous-
Eocene,
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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 [1] |
Type species | |
†Baena arenosa Leidy, 1870
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Species | |
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Baena is an extinct genus of baenid turtles. [2]
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). [3]