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    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...
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    Dilophosaurus (category Kayenta Formation)
    signs of a developmental anomaly. Dilophosaurus is known from the Kayenta Formation, and lived alongside dinosaurs such as Scutellosaurus and Sarahsaurus...
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    Moenkopi formations, streams and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations to the large deserts of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations and dry...
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    Kayenta (Navajo: Tó Dínéeshzheeʼ) is a U.S. town which is part of the Navajo Nation and is in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Established November...
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    Kayentatherium (category Kayenta Formation)
    from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona, United States. Kayentatherium means "Kayenta Beast", and is named for the geological formation in which...
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    Sarahsaurus (category Kayenta Formation)
    All specimens of Sarahsaurus were collected from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation near Gold Spring, Arizona. The genus is based on a nearly complete...
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  • Kayentavenator (category Kayenta Formation)
    during the Early Jurassic Period; fossils were recovered from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona and were described in 2010. The holotype specimen...
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    Glen Canyon Group (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
    There are four formations within the group. From oldest to youngest, these are the Wingate Sandstone, Moenave Formation, Kayenta Formation, and Navajo Sandstone...
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    frequently overlies and interfingers with the Kayenta Formation of the Glen Canyon Group. Together, these formations can result in immense vertical cliffs of...
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    dominated by the Glen Canyon Group, consisting of the Navajo Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, and Wingate Sandstone. The entire stratigraphic section includes...
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    A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from...
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    locations in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. Material from Arizona's Kayenta Formation, India, and Argentina has been assigned to the genus at various times...
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    Coelophysis? kayentakatae (category Kayenta Formation)
    kayentakatae refers to Dr. Kathleen Smith, nicknamed "Kayenta Kay" for her extensive work in the Kayenta Formation, which included the discovery of the type specimen...
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    Prosalirus is the name given to a fossilised prehistoric frog found in the Kayenta Formation of Arizona in 1981 by Farish Jenkins. The type, and currently only...
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    just below the Kayenta Formation and Navajo Sandstone, two other formations of the Glen Canyon group. Together, these three formations can result in immense...
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    unconformities), the Chinle Formation, the cliff-forming Wingate Sandstone, the Kayenta Formation, and the crossbedded Triassic-Jurassic Navajo Sandstone. Structurally...
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  • Kayentachelys ("Kayenta turtle") is an extinct genus of turtle known only from the "silty facies" of the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in northeastern...
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  • unidentified (possibly theropod) footprints in the Middle-Late Triassic Pekin Formation of North Carolina. However, the most reliable early record of North American...
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  • Kayentasuchus (category Kayenta Formation)
    Kayentasuchus (meaning "Kayenta Formation crocodile") is a genus of sphenosuchian, a type of basal crocodylomorph, the clade that comprises the crocodilians...
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    skeleton. The fossils came from the early Jurassic strata of the Kayenta Formation in Arizona, USA. The phylogenetic position of "Syntarsus" kayentakatae...
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  • bed, member, formation, group and supergroup. Formal names of lithostratigraphic units are assigned by geological surveys. Units of formation or higher rank...
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  • (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (S78): 1–103. Bibcode:2020JPal...
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    Group of formations includes (from oldest - lowest - to youngest) the Wingate Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, and the Navajo Sandstone These formations are most...
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  • crocodyliform. Fossils have been found from two localities within the Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Both localities are around 20 miles southeast of the Grand...
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    at Depot Beach, New South Wales Rainbow Basin Syncline in the Barstow Formation near Barstow, California. Folded strata. Outcrop of Upper Ordovician limestone...
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    (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona". Journal of Paleontology. 94: 1–103. doi:10.1017/jpa...
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    kayentakatae, previously referred to the genus Megapnosaurus, from the Kayenta Formation of the southwestern US. In recent phylogenetic analyses, "Syntarsus"...
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    the Wingate Sandstone, the Moenave Formation, the Kayenta Formation, and the Navajo Sandstone. Each of the formations can be distinguished from its neighbor...
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    Scutellosaurus (category Kayenta Formation)
    West Moenkopi Plateau locality in the Silty Facies Member of the Kayenta Formation, in Coconino County, Arizona on the land of the Navajo Nation. The...
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    park. The sandstone bridge was carved out of a geological formation known as the Kayenta Formation 65 million years ago, formed by flowing water coursing...
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