Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Baena escavada

Reptilia - Baenidae

Taxonomy
Baena escavada was named by Hay (1908). Its type specimen is AMNH 1203, a partial shell (The specimen [a shell] is not quite complete, being somewhat crusht and fractured and having a portion of the margin of the left side missing), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Escavada Wash (Lower), which is in a Torrejonian terrestrial horizon in the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Baena escavada Hay pp. 65-66 figs. Plate II, figs. I, 2; text-figs. 42, 43
1930Baena escavada Hay p. 72
2015Baena escavada Joyce and Lyson

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

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
speciesescavada

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 escavada Hay 1908
show all | hide all
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available