Gamerabaena
Name:
Gamerabaena.
Phonetic: Gam-e-rahbay-nah.
Named By: T. R. Lyson & W. G.
Joyce - 2010.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Testudines,
Cryptodira, Paracryptodira, Baenidae.
Species: G. sonsalla (type).
Diet: Uncertain/herbivore?
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: USA, North Dakota - Hell
Creek Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Gamerabaena is a genus of baenid turtle that lived in North America towards the end of the Cretaceous period. Gamerabaena is named after the fictional kaiju Gamera, a gigantic turtle-like monster that has featured in a whole series of Japanese monster films in a similar fashion as Godzilla.
Further reading
- A new baenid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota and a preliminary taxonomic
review of Cretaceous Baenidae. - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 30(2):394-402. - T. R. Lyson & W.
G. Joyce - 2010.
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