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Palatobaena bairdi

Reptilia - Baenidae

Taxonomy
Palatobaena bairdi was named by Gaffney (1972). Its type specimen is YPM-PU 16839, a partial skull (a partially distorted right half of a skull), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cedar Point Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Palatobaena.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Palatobaena bairdi Gaffney pp. 248, 269-274 figs. 22-25, 51
1976Palatobaena bairdi Estes p. 507
1989Palatobaena bairdi Bryant p. 36
2003Palatobaena bairdi Hutchison and Holroyd
2009Palatobaena bairdi Lyson and Joyce pp. 459-460
2015Palatobaena bairdi Joyce and Lyson

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
—Paracryptodira
familyBaenidaeCope 1882
—BaenoddaGaffney and Meylan 1988
—Palatobaeninae()
genusPalatobaena
speciesbairdi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Palatobaena bairdi Gaffney 1972
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. S. Gaffney 1972[same as for genus Palatobaena]
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Torrejonian or 70.60000 to 60.90000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lancian70.6 - 66.0USA (Montana) Palatobaena bairdi (14516 14582 118483)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Montana) Palatobaena bairdi (13142 48629)
Puercan66.0 - 63.3USA (Colorado) Palatobaena bairdi (14678)
Torrejonian63.8 - 60.9USA (Montana) Palatobaena bairdi (14874 14876)
Tiffanian61.7 - 56.8USA (Wyoming) Palatobaena bairdi (type locality: 15017)