Plesiobaena Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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P. antiqua, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Family: | † Baenidae |
Genus: | † Plesiobaena Lambe, 1902 |
Type species | |
†Plesiobaena antiqua Lambe, 1902 |
Plesiobaena is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in the Belly River Formation, Canada during the late Cretaceous period (Campanian age). [1] It was first named by Lawrence Lambe in 1902 and the type species is Plesiobaena antiqua. [1]