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Baena affinis

Reptilia - Baenidae

Taxonomy
Baena affinis was named by Leidy (1871). Its type specimen is ANSP 10055, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Church Buttes, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

It was synonymized subjectively with Baena arenosa by Leidy (1873), Hay (1902), Hay (1908) and Gaffney (1972).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Baena affinis Leidy p. 367
1908Baena riparia Hay p. 76 figs. figs. 59-66, pls. 17, 18, 19 figs. 1-3
1915Baena inflata Gilmore p. 112 figs. 2-3
1930Baena inflata Hay p. 72
1930Baena riparia Hay p. 72
2015Baena affinis Joyce and Lyson

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
—Paracryptodira
familyBaenidaeCope 1882
—BaenoddaGaffney and Meylan 1988
—Eubaeninae(Williams 1950)
genusBaena
speciesaffinisLeidy 1871

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Baena affinis Leidy 1871
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Invalid names: Baena inflata Gilmore 1915 [synonym], Baena riparia Hay 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available