Baena (turtle)
Extinct genus of turtles
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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  | |
| 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 | |
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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]
