''Cedrobaena'' is an extinct genus of
turtle
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which existed in the
Tiffanian
The Tiffanian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 60,200,000 to 56,800,000 years BP lasting .
It is usually c ...
Cedar Point Quarry,
Wyoming
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and in the latest
Maastrichtian
The Maastrichtian () is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval ...
Hell Creek Formation
The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana. The formation stretches over portions of ...
,
United States
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.
It was first named by
Tyler R. Lyson and
Walter G. Joyce in 2009 and the type species is ''Cedrobaena putorius''.
References
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''Cedrobaena''at the
Paleobiology Database
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History
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) originated in the NCEAS-funded Phanerozoic Marine Pale ...
Baenidae
Prehistoric turtle genera
Late Cretaceous turtles of North America
Paleocene turtles
Cenozoic turtles of North America
Hell Creek fauna
Fossil taxa described in 2009
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