KAYENTAVENATOR
a controversial theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Arizona.
Pronunciation: KAI-en-tuh-VEN-uh-tuh
Meaning: Kayenta hunter
Author/s: Gay (
2010)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Arizona, USA
Discovery Chart Position: #704
Kayentavenator elysiae
(Elysia's Kayenta Hunter)Etymology
Kayentavenator is derived from "Kayenta" (the formation in which it was found) and the Latin "venator" (hunter).
The
species epithet,
elysiae, honours Elysia Jennett, the wife of author Robert Gay, for her help and support.
Discovery
The remains of
Kayentavenator were discovered at "Willow Springs 2" in the Silty Facies Member of the Kayenta Formation, on a Navajo Reservation at Rock Head , Coconino County, Arizona, USA, by the University of California Museum of Paleontology in 1982.
The
holotype (UCMP 128659) is a partial pelvis, a hindlimb, and seven vertebrae.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Pliensbachian
Age range: 189 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Carnivore
References
• Fairmaire L (1869) "
Notes sur les Coléoptères
recueillis par Charles Coquerel à Madagascar et sur les côtes d'Afrique".
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 4(9):
179-260.
• Raath MA (1969) "A new Coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia".
Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4(28): 1-25.
• Clark JM and Fastovsky DE (1986) "Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Glen Canyon Group in northern Arizona". Page 285-301 in Fraser and Sues (eds.) "The Beginning of the Age of the Dinosaurs: Faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary".
• Rowe T (1989) "
A new species of the theropod dinosaur Syntarsus from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona".
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 9(2): 125-136.
• Ivie MA, Slipinski SA and Wegrzynowicz P (2001) "
Generic Homonyms in the Colydiinae (Coleoptera:
Zopheridae)".
Insecta Mundi, 15(1): 184.
• Gay R (2003) "A new theropod from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona".
Unpublished undergraduate thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
• Bristowe A and Raath MA (2004) "A juvenile coelophysoid skull from the Early Jurassic of Zimbabwe, and the synonymy of
Coelophysis and
Syntarsus".
Palaeontologia Africana, 40: 31-41.
• Gay R (2010) "
Kayentavenator elysiae, a new tetanuran from the early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona".
Page 27-43 in "Notes on Early Mesozoic Theropods". Lulu Press.
• Ezcurra MD (2017) "A new early coelophysoid neotheropod from the Late Triassic of northwestern Argentina".
Ameghiniana, 54(5): 506-538. DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.04.08.2017.3100.
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