Lupeosaurus

Lupeosaurus is an extinct genus of pelycosaurian synapsid, assigned to the family Edaphosauridae.

Classification

It is known from only two described specimens, both consisting of postcranial bits and pieces. The most significant item is the absence of cross-bars on the neural spines. This left considerable doubt about the affinities of Lupeosaurus. However, the vertebrae and neural spines are otherwise entirely edaphosaurid. Unfortunately, these, and some pieces of the limb girdles, are about all that exist.

Lupeosaurus was 2.5 – 3.3 m long and weighed perhaps as much as 166 kg. The ribs suggest, but only suggest, that it was markedly skinnier than Edaphosaurus and thus not a highly adapted herbivore. Everything known about the limbs suggests that they were massive for an edaphosaur. The robust limbs, combined with presumed thinness, point toward a run-of-the-mill carnivore of some kind. Amphicoelous vertebral centra are a little unusual in a (relatively) powerful carnivore, but this was the primitive and usual condition for early synapsids of all types.

Kayı tribe

The Kayı tribe or Kai tribe (Turkish: Kayı boyu) was an Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation. In the 11th century Mahmud al-Kashgari cited Kayı (Kayiglardir) tribal tamga as . The word kayı means "the one who has might and power by relationship".

As a Kayitag (Russified Kaitag) group (Mountain Kayi) the Kayı tribe played a prominent role in the history of the Caucasus, and now the Kayitag language is classified as one of five dialects of the Kumyk language, which for ten centuries (10—19 cc.) was a lingua franca in the North Causacus. Kayitag principality was a leading component of the Shamkhalate of Kazi-Kumukh state on the Caspian western seaboard that in different forms lasted from the 8th to the 19th centuries. Kaitag textiles, stamped out under the Soviet rule, remain distinct in their artistry and workmanship.

Osman I, founder of Ottoman Empire was a hereditary leader in the Kayı tribe.

See also

KTOH

KTOH (99.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting (as of January 2009) a country music format. Licensed to Kalaheo, Hawaii, USA, the station serves the Kauai area. The station is currently owned by Hochman Hawaii-One, Inc.

History

The station was assigned call sign KAYI on November 10, 1997. On November 7, 2000, the station changed its call sign to the current KTOH.

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