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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

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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
Baenodda()
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
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 100 to < 1000g
Environment: freshwaterg
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: aquaticg
Diet: carnivoreg
Created: 2006-04-19 15:11:27
Modified: 2006-04-19 17:11:27
Source: g = genus, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Holroyd et al. 2001, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Torrejonian or 63.80000 to 60.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Torrejonian63.8 - 60.9USA (New Mexico) Baena escavada (type locality: 14834)