Kayentasuchus
Name:
Kayentasuchus
(Kayenta Crocodile, named after the Kayenta Formation).
Phonetic: Kay-en-tah-soo-kus.
Named By: J. M. Clark & H.-D. Sues
- 2002.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Crocodylomorpha, Sphenosuchidae.
Species: K. walkeri (type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: USA, Arizona - Kayenta
Formation.
Time period: Sinemurian-Pliensbachian of the
Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial postcranial
skeletal remains.
Kayentasuchus is a genus of small sphenosuchian crocodilomorph that lived in the south-west of the USA during the early Jurassic. Overall Kayentasuchus is noted for having a gracile build with slender limbs. The front of the skull is narrow with the lower jaw curved upwards, indicating that Kayentasuchus may have been quite specialised in their feeding habits.
Further reading
- Two new basal crocodylomorph archosaur from the Lower Jurassic and
the monophyly of the Sphenosuchia. - Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society 136:77-95. - J. M. Clark & H.-D.
Sues - 2002.
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