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Kayentachelys is known from several dozen specimens preserving elements from both the cranial and postcranial skeleton. Its shell is about 20 cm (7.9 in) in length. [6] As originally diagnosed, [1] Kayentachelys possesses pterygoid teeth and a ventrally-exposed prootic, both of which are ancestral amniote features.
Kayenta Formation west of Tuba City, Arizona. The Kayenta Formation is a geological formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Traditionally has been suggested as Sinemurian -Pliensbachian, but more recent dating ...
Nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of sedimentary strata are found in the Capitol Reef area, representing nearly 200 million years of geologic history of the south-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. These rocks range in age from Permian (as old as 270 million years old) to Cretaceous (as young as 80 million years old.)
2408461[2] Kayenta(Navajo: Tó Dínéeshzheeʼmeaning "Fingers of Water" because of how water runs down the rocks when it rains[3]) is a U.S. town[4]which is part of the Navajo Nation and is in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Established November 13, 1986, the Kayenta Township is unique in being the only "township" existing under the ...
Kayentatherium means "Kayenta Beast", and is named for the geological formation in which it was found, the Kayenta Formation. Kayentatherium is known from several specimens. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The specific name honors paleontologist Samuel Welles , who worked with the University of California Museum of Paleontology in much of the pioneering work on ...
S. kayentakatae was a relatively small dinosaur, reaching 2.5 m (8.2 ft) in length and 30 kg (66 lb) in body mass. [ 12] It had two small, parallel crests which may demonstrate an evolutionary step toward later and larger neotheropods, such as the more advanced and larger Dilophosaurus. Both possess a "weak joint" between the premaxillary and ...
Binomial name. †Kayentavenator elysiae. Gay, 2010. Kayentavenator (meaning " Kayenta hunter") is a genus of small carnivorous tetanuran dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic Period; fossils were recovered from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona and were described in 2010.
Early life and family. Mary Louise Wade was born 2 September 1877 in Wells, Nevada. She was the daughter of Jack Wade, a U.S. Army Captain, and Julia France Rush Wade. When she was about two years old, the family moved to Mancos, Colorado. The Wetherill family lived nearby. When she was eighteen, Louisa married 30 year old John Wetherill on 17 ...