| Kayentachelys Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | Mesochelydia |
| Genus: | †Kayentachelys Gaffney et al., 1987 |
| Species: | †K. aprix
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kayentachelys aprix Gaffney et al., 1987
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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 Arizona on the lands of the Navajo Nation.[1]
- ^ Gaffney, E.S.; Hutchinson, J.H.; Jenkins, F.A Jr.; Meeker, L.J. (1987). "Modern Turtle Origins; The Oldest Known Cryptodire" (PDF). Science. 237 (4812): 289–291. Bibcode:1987Sci...237..289G. doi:10.1126/science.237.4812.289. PMID 17772056. S2CID 36112523.