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Baena arenosa

Reptilia - Baenidae

Taxonomy
Baena arenosa was named by Leidy (1870). Its type specimen is USNM 103, a partial shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is junction of the Big Sandy and Green river, which is in a Ypresian/Lutetian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Baena.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Baena arenosa Leidy
1873Baena arenosa Cope
1873Baena arenosa Leidy p. 161
1875Baena arenosa Cope p. 36
1877Baena arenosa Cope
1882Baena arenosa Cope
1884Baena arenosa Cope
1902Baena arenosa Hay p. 437
1908Baena arenosa Hay p. 67 figs. Plate 12; plate 13, fig. i; plate 14, figs. 1-3; teit-figs. 44-51
1908Baena sima Hay p. 71 figs. figs 52-53; plate13, figs 1-2; plate 14, fig. 4
1908Baena clara Hay p. 74 figs. figs 57-58; plate 16, figs 1-2
1908Baena emiliae Hay p. 80 figs. figs. 67, 68, pl. 20 figs. 1, 2
1915Baena arenosa Gilmore p. 107
1915Baena emiliae Gilmore p. 109
1930Baena arenosa Hay p. 71
1930Baena clara Hay p. 71
1930Baena emiliae Hay p. 72
1930Baena sima Hay p. 72
1972Baena arenosa Gaffney pp. 248, 276-286 figs. 26-33, 52-54
2000Baena arenosa Zonneveld et al.
2014Baena arenosa Perea et al.
2015Baena arenosa Joyce and Lyson
2017Baena emiliae Vlachos

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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
speciesarenosa

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 arenosa Leidy 1870
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Invalid names: Baena clara Hay 1908 [synonym], Baena emiliae Hay 1908 [synonym], Baena sima Hay 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available