Palatobaena

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
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Pantestudines
Clade:	Testudinata
Clade:	† Paracryptodira
Family:	† Baenidae
Genus:	† Palatobaena Gaffney, 1972
Species [1]
P. bairdiGaffney, 1972 (type) P. cohenLyson & Joyce, 2009 P. gaffneyiArchibald & Hutchison, 1979 P. knellerorum 2021

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. ^[2] The two other species are P. gaffneyi (a complete skull from Eocene (Wasatchian North American Land Mammal Age)) ^[3] and P. cohen which existed in Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota during the late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian age). ^[4]

References

1. Tyler R. Lyson; Walter G. Joyce (2009). "A Revision of Plesiobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and an Assessment of Baenid Ecology Across the K/T Boundary". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (6): 833–853. doi:10.1666/09-035.1. S2CID   85964417.
2. Gaffney, E. S. (1972). "The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 147: 241–320.
3. Archibald, J. D. & J. H. Hutchison (1979). "Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species". Postilla. 177: 1–19.
4. Lyson, T.R. & Joyce, W.G. (2009). "A New Species of Palatobaena (Testudines: Baenidae) and a Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis of Baenidae". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (3): 457–470. Bibcode:2009JPal...83..457L. doi:10.1666/08-172.1. S2CID   86045244.