Palatobaena gaffneyi Archibald and Hutchison 1979 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata - Baenidae

Full reference: J. D. Archibald and J. H. Hutchison. 1979. Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species. Postilla 177:1-19

Belongs to Palatobaena according to W. G. Joyce and T. R. Lyson 2015

See also Archibald and Hutchison 1979 and Lyson and Joyce 2009

Sister taxa: Palatobaena bairdi, Palatobaena cohen, Palatobaena knellerorum

Type specimen: UCMP 114529, a skull (Complete skull lacking right orbital region, sutures not co-ossified, slightly distorted). Its type locality is Upper Meniscotherium, which is in a Wasatchian fluvial sandstone in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Upper Meniscotherium

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