Plesiobaena Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Family: | † Baenidae |
Genus: | †
Plesiobaena Lambe, 1902 |
Type species | |
†Plesiobaena antiqua Lambe, 1902
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Plesiobaena is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in the Belly River Formation, Canada during the late Cretaceous period ( Campanian age). [1] It was first named by Lawrence Lambe in 1902 and the type species is Plesiobaena antiqua. [1]