Plesiobaena

Plesiobaena
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
P. antiqua, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: †Paracryptodira
Family: †Baenidae
Genus: †
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]

References

  1. ^ a b Lambe, L. M. (1902). "New genera and species from the Belly River Series (Mid-Cretaceous)". Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 3: 23–81.


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