Baena (turtle)

Baena
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Eocene, 70–40 Ma
Shell of B. arenosa (specimen AMNH 1112)
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Species
  • †Baena affinis Leidy, 1871
  • †Baena arenosa Leidy, 1870
  • †Baena escavada Hay, 1909
  • †Baena hayi Gilmore, 1916
  • †Baena marshi Hay, 1904

Baena (pronounced ba-en-na)[2] is an extinct genus of baenid turtles that inhabited North America during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene.[3] The genus name is thought to originate from a Native American language, possibly the Arapaho word for turtle, be’enoo.[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).[4]

References

  1. ^ J. Leidy. 1870. [Descriptions of Emys jaenesi, E. haydeni, Baena arenosa, and Saniwa ensidens]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1870:123-124
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ "Baena Leidy, 1870". www.gbif.org. GBIF. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  4. ^ "Baena". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.


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