Baena (turtle)

Baena (pronounced ba-en-na)^[2] is an extinct genus of baenid turtles that inhabited North America during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene.^[3] The genus name is thought to originate from a Native American language, possibly the Arapaho word for turtle, be’enoo.^[2]

Baena Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Eocene, 70–40 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Shell of B. arenosa (specimen AMNH 1112)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Pantestudines
Clade:	Testudinata
Clade:	†Paracryptodira
Family:	†Baenidae
Clade:	†Baenodda
(unranked):	†Eubaeninae
Genus:	†Baena Leidy, 1870[1]
Type species
†Baena arenosa Leidy, 1870
Species
†Baena affinis Leidy, 1871 †Baena arenosa Leidy, 1870 †Baena escavada Hay, 1909 †Baena hayi Gilmore, 1916 †Baena marshi Hay, 1904

Fossils of Baena have been found in locations including Kirtland Formation, Campanian New Mexico (B. sp.) (Cretaceous) and Ravenscrag Formation, Maastrichtian Canada (B. sp.) (Cretaceous).^[4]