| 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]