Phonetic transcription of Kyhytysuka, the first Cretaceous hypercarnivorous ichthyosaur

Listen to the phonetic description of Kyhytysuka, the first Cretaceous hypercarnivorous ichthyosaur. Facundo Saravia - Fundación Zaquenzipa. The genus name is derived from the ancient language of the Muisca people and culture, an ancestral indigenous group that inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in Colombia since the VI century. The name is a combination of ‘kyhyty’ that is the verb ‘to cut with something sharp’ and ‘suka’ that is the particle of ‘the one that’. The combination kyhytysuka thus means ‘the one that cuts with something sharp’ to honour the ancient Muisca culture and reference the unique dentition of this taxon.