Baena (turtle) explained

Baena (pronounced ba-en-na) is an extinct genus of baenid turtles that inhabited North America during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene.^[1] The genus name is thought to originate from a Native American language, possibly the Arapaho word for turtle, be’enoo.^[2]

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).^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Baena Leidy, 1870 . 2021-02-20 . www.gbif.org . . en.
2. Joyce . Walter G. . Lyson . Tyler R. . 2015 . A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Baenidae . Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History . en . 56 . 2 . 147–183 . 10.3374/014.056.0203 . 0079-032X.
3. Web site: Baena. Fossilworks. 17 December 2021.