Kayentatherium
Name:
Kayentatherium
(Kayenta beast, named after the Kayenta Formation).
Phonetic: Kay-en-tah-fee-ree-um.
Named By: D. M. Kermack - 1982.
Synonyms: Nearctylodon broomi.
Classification: Chordata, Synapsida,
Therapsida, Cynodontia, Tritylodontidae.
Species: K. wellesi (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Skull at least 20 centimetres long.
Known locations: USA, Arizona - Kayenta
Formation.
Time period: Sinemurian-Pliensbachian of the
Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull, and post
cranial skeletal remains.
Kayentatherium is a genus of cynodont therapsid that lived in the south-west USA during the Early Jurassic.
Further reading
- A new tritylodontid from the Kayenta formation of Arizona. -
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 76:1-17. - D. M.
Kermack - 1982.
- The Postcranial Skeleton of Kayentatherium wellesi
from the Lower
Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona and the Phylogenetic Significance
of Postcranial Features, by Hans-Dieter Sues & F. A.
Jenkins - In Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectivers on the
Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, p114-152 - M.
T. Carrano, T. J. Gaudin, R. W. Blob & J.
R. Wible - 2006.
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