Kayentavenator elysiae
"Kayenta hunter"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Kayentavenator 50 cm (1.6 ft) long
about the size of a house cat
- Length
- 50 cm (1.6 ft)
- Period
- Early Jurassic (189 Mya)
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we know
- Named by Gay, 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 0.5 m.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Kayentavenator — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.