Biology:Cedrobaena
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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles
| Cedrobaena | |
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| Cedrobaena putorius in National Museum of Nature and Science | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
| Family: | †Baenidae |
| Genus: | †Cedrobaena Lyson & Joyce, 2009 |
| Type species | |
| Cedrobaena putorius Gaffney, 1972
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| Synonyms | |
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Plesiobaena putorius | |
Cedrobaena is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in the Tiffanian Cedar Point Quarry, Wyoming and in the latest Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation, United States .[1] It was first named by Tyler R. Lyson and Walter G. Joyce in 2009 and the type species is Cedrobaena putorius.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lyson, T.R.; Joyce, W.G. (2009). "A revision of Plesiobaena (Testudinoes: 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. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/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.
- * Cedrobaena at the Paleobiology Database
Wikidata ☰ Q5057177 entry
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