Tawa (named after the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god) is a genus of possible basal theropod dinosaurs from the Late Triassic period. [1] The fossil remains of Tawa hallae, the type and only species were found in the Hayden Quarry of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, US.

In 2004, paleontologists uncovered a new dinosaur called the Tawa Hallae that changed what we knew about the first dinosaurs. It was one of the first meat-eating dinosaurs to roam planet Earth and a fierce predator.

Dec 10, 2009 · The diminutive, two-meter-long Tawa hallae fills a big gap in the fossil record between the earliest carnivores, such as Herrerasaurus, and later theropod lines that include Tyrannosaurus rex...

Dec 17, 2009 · Tawa was close to the origin of theropod dinosaurs, and by comparing it to other early dinosaurs paleontologists were able to refine their ideas about early saurischian evolution. The bones of...

Jul 9, 2016 · Tawa is yet another dinosaur genus from the late Triassic of the Ghost Ranch North America,‭ ‬and as you might expect,‭ ‬one quite primitive in form.‭ ‬Tawa were bipedal dinosaurs of the theropod line,‭ ‬noted for having femurs that were proportionately quite long when compared to the lower leg bones.‭ ‬Tawa also had a kink ...

Dec 10, 2009 · Nicknamed Tawa, the two-legged creature studied by Nesbitt's team lived about 215 million years ago, and shares key features with the earliest known theropods, including air sacs in bones, hips...

Tawa ist eine Gattung von theropoden Dinosauriern aus der mittleren Obertrias von Nordamerika. Alle bekannten Fossilien stammen aus der Chinle-Formation im US-Bundesstaat New Mexico. Die einzige Art ist Tawa hallae, die 2009 von Nesbitt et al. erstmals wissenschaftlich beschrieben und benannt wurde. Der Gattungsname ist ein Hopi-Name für den ...

The description of the new species, named Tawa after the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god, appears in the Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown Theropod dinosaur from a fossil bone bed in northern New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, and hinting at how dinosaurs spread across the supercontinent Pangaea.

Artists drawing based on analysis of how the newly discovered Triassic dinosaur, Tawa hallae, relates to other early dinosaurs.

A complete skeleton of a Late Triassic saurischian and the early evolution of dinosaurs.