Kayentavenator
| Kayentavenator Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Tetanurae |
| Genus: | †Kayentavenator Gay, 2010 |
| Species: | †K. elysiae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kayentavenator elysiae Gay, 2010
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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.