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]
| Baena Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Eocene,
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| Shell of B. arenosa (specimen AMNH 1112) | |
Scientific classification 
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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] |
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| †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).[4]
References
edit- ^ J. Leidy. 1870. [Descriptions of Emys jaenesi, E. haydeni, Baena arenosa, and Saniwa ensidens]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1870:123-124
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Baena Leidy, 1870". www.gbif.org. GBIF. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Baena". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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