Tawa
Tawa was a small, fast dinosaur that lived about 215 million years ago in what is now New Mexico. It had a slender body and a kink in its upper jaw, and it may have been one of the earliest meat-eating dinosaurs.1
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Tawa's fossils were discovered at the Hayden Quarry in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, starting in 2004.1
The name Tawa comes from the Hopi word for the sun god, and the species name hallae honors Ruth Hall, founder of the Ghost Ranch Museum of Paleontology.1
Tawa had a kink in its upper jaw, between the maxilla and premaxilla, similar to some other early theropods.1
Scientists think Tawa helps show that the earliest dinosaurs evolved in South America and then spread across the supercontinent Pangaea.1
The holotype specimen of Tawa is a juvenile, with an open braincase and unfused bones.1
An isolated femur suggests that adult Tawa could be at least 30% larger than the juvenile holotype.1


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- Innde ganndal
- Tawa
- Inndoowo
- Nesbitt et al. 20092
- Fedde
- Dinosoorji arani
- Fedde / clade
- Saurischia2
- Duuɓi kaaƴe
- 227 haa 206 miliyon duuɓi (Norian)2
- Cuuɗi kaaƴe
- Chinle2
- Leyɗe
- USA2
- Fosilji tawaaɗi
- 3 nder Paleobiology Database2
- Tawgol
- Tawa was first described in 2009 by a team led by Sterling J. Nesbitt, based on fossils found in New Mexico.1
- Haa jooni ɓe ɗon yeddondira
- Scientists debate whether Tawa is a true theropod or a more basal saurischian, and whether it belongs to the group Coelophysoidea.1
To haalaaji ummii
- Tawa hallae (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tawa in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): duuɓi, nokkuuje, cuuɗi kaaƴe, pecce.
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