Biology:Palatobaena
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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
| Family: | †Baenidae |
| Genus: | †Palatobaena Gaffney, 1972 |
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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; 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. 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.
- ↑ 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. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/08-172.1?journalCode=pleo.
Wikidata ☰ Q7126844 entry
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