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Coelophysis kayentakatae

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Coelophysis kayentakatae is an extinct species of coelophysid dinosaur that lived approximately 196 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period in what is now the southwestern United States. [1]

54 relations: ABDO Publishing Company, Basal (phylogenetics), Caecilia, Calsoyasuchus, Camposaurus, Cladogram, Coelophysidae, Coelophysis bauri, Coelophysis rhodesiensis, Coprolite, Crocodylomorpha, Dilophosaurus, Dinosaur, Early Jurassic, Eocaecilia, Eopneumatosuchus, Extinction, Geological period, Heterodontosauridae, Holotype, Hybodontidae, Jurassic, Kayenta Formation, Kayentachelys, Kayentasuchus, Kayentatherium, Kayentavenator, Lungfish, Maxilla, Myr, Natural environment, Navajo Sandstone, Oligokyphus, Osteichthyes, Ostracod, Phylogenetics, Pliensbachian, Premaxilla, Prosalirus, Protosuchus, Pterosaur, Rhamphinion, Rhynchocephalia, Sarahsaurus, Sauropodomorpha, Scelidosaurus, Scutellosaurus, Sinemurian, Species, Synapsid, ..., Therapsid, United States, 1989 in paleontology, 2001 in paleontology. Expand index (4 more) »

ABDO Publishing Company

ABDO Publishing Company is a book publishing company, specializing in non-fiction books for the school library market.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Caecilia

Caecilia is a genus of amphibians in the family Caeciliidae.

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Calsoyasuchus

Calsoyasuchus (meaning " Calsoyas' crocodile") is a genus of goniopholidid mesoeucrocodylian that lived in the Early Jurassic.

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Camposaurus

Camposaurus is a coelophysoid dinosaur genus from the Norian stage of the Late Triassic period of North America.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Coelophysidae

Coelophysidae is a family of primitive carnivorous theropod dinosaurs.

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Coelophysis bauri

Coelophysis bauri is an extinct species of coelophysid dinosaur that lived 209-201 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period in what is now the southwestern United States.

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Coelophysis rhodesiensis

Coelophysis rhodesiensis is an extinct species of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 188 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Africa.

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Coprolite

A coprolite is fossilized feces.

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Crocodylomorpha

Crocodylomorpha is a group of archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.

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Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 193million years ago.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period.

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Eocaecilia

Eocaecilia is an extinct genus of gymnophionan amphibian from the early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona, United States.

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Eopneumatosuchus

Eopneumatosuchus is an extinct genus of basal crocodyliform.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Geological period

A geological period is one of several subdivisions of geologic time enabling cross-referencing of rocks and geologic events from place to place.

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Heterodontosauridae

Heterodontosauridae is a family of early ornithischian dinosaurs that were likely among the most basal (primitive) members of the group.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Hybodontidae

Hybodontidae is an extinct family of sharks, first appearing in the Mississippian period, and disappearing during the Miocene.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Kayenta Formation

Kayenta, Arizona is a settlement in the Navajo reservation. The Kayenta Formation is a geologic layer 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.

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Kayentachelys

Kayentachelys ("Kayenta turtle") is an extinct genus of turtle known only from the "silty facies" of the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in northeastern Arizona on the lands of the Navajo Nation.

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Kayentasuchus

Kayentasuchus (meaning "Kayenta Formation crocodile") is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians and their closest kin.

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Kayentatherium

Kayentatherium is an extinct genus of tritylodontid cynodonts that lived during the Early Jurassic.

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Kayentavenator

Kayentavenator (meaning "Kayenta hunter") is a small carnivorous dinosaur genus which lived during the Early Jurassic Period; fossils were recovered from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona and were described in 2010.

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Lungfish

Lungfish are freshwater rhipidistian fish belonging to the subclass Dipnoi.

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Maxilla

The maxilla (plural: maxillae) in animals is the upper jawbone formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

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Myr

The abbreviation myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e.) years, or 31.6 teraseconds.

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Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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Navajo Sandstone

Navajo Sandstone is a geological formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the U.S. states of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, and Utah as part of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States.

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Oligokyphus

Oligokyphus is an extinct genus of advanced herbivorous cynodonts of the late Triassic to early Jurassic periods.

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Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.

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Ostracod

Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

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Pliensbachian

The Pliensbachian is an age of the geologic timescale or stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Premaxilla

The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth.

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Prosalirus

Prosalirus bitis is the name given to a fossilized prehistoric frog found in Arizona in 1981 by Farish Jenkins.

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Protosuchus

Protosuchus is an extinct genus of carnivorous crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.

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Rhamphinion

Rhamphinion (meaning "beak nape"; Greek rhamphos, "beak" is a common part of "rhamphorhynchoid" names, and the remains of this animal came from the rear of the skull, i.e. "nape" or inion) is a genus of pterosaurs from the Sinemurian-mid Pliensbachian-age Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona, United States.

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Rhynchocephalia

Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species of tuatara, which in turn has two subspecies (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus and Sphenodon punctatus guntheri), which only inhabit parts of New Zealand.

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Sarahsaurus

Sarahsaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the lower Jurassic period in what is now northeastern Arizona, United States.

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Sauropodomorpha

Sauropodomorpha (from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.

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Scelidosaurus

Scelidosaurus (with the intended meaning of "limb lizard", from Greek skelis/σκελίς meaning 'rib of beef' and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard')Liddell & Scott (1980).

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Scutellosaurus

Scutellosaurus is an extinct genus of thyreophoran ornithischian dinosaur that lived approximately 196 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period in what is now Arizona, USA.

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Sinemurian

In the geologic timescale, the Sinemurian is an age or stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic epoch or series.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Synapsid

Synapsids (Greek, 'fused arch'), synonymous with theropsids (Greek, 'beast-face'), are a group of animals that includes mammals and every animal more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes.

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Therapsid

Therapsida is a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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1989 in paleontology

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Mesogondolella.

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2001 in paleontology

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

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Syntarsus kayentakatae.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelophysis_kayentakatae

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