Cedrobaena Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous-
Paleocene
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Cedrobaena putorius in National Museum of Nature and Science | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Family: | † Baenidae |
Genus: | †
Cedrobaena Lyson & Joyce, 2009 |
Type species | |
Cedrobaena putorius Gaffney, 1972
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Synonyms | |
Plesiobaena putorius |
Cedrobaena is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in the Tiffanian Cedar Point Quarry, Wyoming and in the latest Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation, United States. [1] It was first named by Tyler R. Lyson and Walter G. Joyce in 2009 and the type species is Cedrobaena putorius. [1] [2]