Palatobaena

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Reptilia

Clade:Pantestudines

Clade:Testudinata

Palatobaena Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene 70.6–50.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
P. cohen skull at the Yale Peabody Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Pantestudines
Clade:	Testudinata
Clade:	†Paracryptodira
Family:	†Baenidae
Genus:	†Palatobaena Gaffney, 1972
Species[1]
P. bairdi Gaffney, 1972 (type) P. cohen Lyson & Joyce, 2009 P. gaffneyi Archibald & Hutchison, 1979 P. knellerorum Lyson et al., 2021[2]

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.^[3] The two other species are P. gaffneyi (a complete skull from Eocene (Wasatchian North American Land Mammal Age))^[4] and P. cohen which existed in Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota during the late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian age).^[5]