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Baena (turtle)
Extinct genus of turtles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baena is an extinct genus of baenid turtles.[2]
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Baena | |
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Shell of B. arenosa (specimen AMNH 1112) | |
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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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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]