†unranked clade Palatobaeninae Gaffney 1972 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata - Baenidae

Full reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312

Parent taxon: Baenodda according to T. R. Lyson et al. 2016

See also Gaffney 1972 and Joyce and Lyson 2015

Sister taxa: Arvinachelys, Baenini, Eubaeninae, Saxochelys, Scabremys

Subtaxa: Cedrobaena Gamerabaena Palatobaena Plesiobaena

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (14: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Canada (7: Alberta), United States (33: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 57 collections including 61 occurrences

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