Palatobaena
Palatobaena Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene 70.6–50.3 Ma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Superclass: | Tetrapoda |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Infraorder: | Paracryptodira |
Family: | Baenidae |
Genus: | Palatobaena Gaffney, 1972 |
Species[1] | |
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Palatobaena is an extinct genus of baenid turtle. It was first named by Gaffney in 1972 and the type species is Palatobaena bairdi. It based on a fragmentary skull from the Fort Union Formation of the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming.[2] The two other species are P. gaffneyi (a complete skull from Eocene (Wasatchian North American Land Mammal Age))[3] and P. cohen which existed in Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota during the late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian age).[4]
References
- ↑ Tyler R. Lyson and Walter G. Joyce (2009). "A Revision of Plesiobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and an Assessment of Baenid Ecology Across the K/T Boundary". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (6): 833–853. doi:10.1666/09-035.1.
- ↑ Gaffney, E. S. (1972). "The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 147: 241–320.
- ↑ Archibald, J. D. & J. H. Hutchison (1979). "Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species". Postilla. 177: 1–19.
- ↑ Lyson, T.R. & Joyce, W.G. (2009). "A New Species of Palatobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and a Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis of Baenidae". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (3): 457–470. doi:10.1666/08-172.1.
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