Reptilia - Testudinata - Baenidae
Alternative combination: Plesiobaena putorius
Full reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312
Belongs to Cedrobaena according to W. G. Joyce and T. R. Lyson 2015
See also Lyson and Joyce 2009
Sister taxon: Cedrobaena brinkman
Type specimen: YPM PU 14984, a skull (an almost complete partially crushed skull). Its type locality is Cedar Point Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (4: Wyoming collections)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: North Dakota)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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