Kitching Ridge [SEP] continent
Kitching Ridge
Kitching Ridge () is a prominent rock ridge on the west side of Shackleton Glacier, between Bennett Platform and Matador Mountain, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for South African vertebrate paleontologist James W. Kitching who first found fossils here. Kitching was an exchange scientist with the Ohio State University Institute of Polar Studies 1970–71 geological party to the Queen Maud Mountains.
skull with the ventral surface of the dermal bones present. The palate and braincase are not preserved. An additional paratype specimen called AMNH 9556 includes an impression of the skull roof, but no preserved bones. AMNH 9503 was found on Kitching Ridge (which is also named after James Kitching) near Shackleton Glacier, and AMNH 9556 was found on Mount Kenyon near McGregor Glacier. Two crushed skulls from Kitching Ridge were also considered possible specimens of "Cryobatrachus", as was part of an upper jaw from Halfmoon Bluff (which is