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. Its discovery alongside the relatives of Coelophysis and Herrerasaurus supports the hypothesis that the earliest dinosaurs arose in Gondwana during the early Late Triassic period in what is now South America, and radiated from there around the globe.[2] The specific name honours Ruth Hall, founder of the Ghost Ranch Museum of Paleontology.[3]
^Maffly, Brian (December 10, 2009), "New Mexico find sheds light on early dinosaur dispersal", Salt Lake Tribune, archived from the original on December 13, 2009
^"New T. Rex Cousin Suggests Dinosaurs Arose in S. America", National Geographic, December 10, 2009, archived from the original on December 13, 2009
^Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Smith, Nathan D.; Irmis, Randall B.; Turner, Alan H.; Downs, Alex; Norell, Mark A. (11 December 2009). "A Complete Skeleton of a Late Triassic Saurischian and the Early Evolution of Dinosaurs". Science. 326 (5959): 1530–1533. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1530N. doi:10.1126/science.1180350. PMID 20007898. S2CID 8349110.
theropod dinosaurs from the Late Triassic period. The fossil remains of Tawahallae, the type and only species were found in the Hayden Quarry of Ghost Ranch...
an impact crater on Rhea Tawahallae, a dinosaur named after the solar deity of the Puebloan peoples (using the Hopi name) Tawa (tree), after which the...
groups. Based on the study of the overlapping material of Dromomeron and Tawahallae, Christopher Bennett proposed that the two taxa were conspecific, forming...
placed as the sister taxon of Tawahallae, a carnivorous dinosaur from the Hayden Quarry of Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. Tawa lived at roughly the same time...
to Tawahallae, a theropod that was described from Ghost Ranch in 2009, and the Neotheropoda. Although the two theropods are closely related, Tawa was...
airelensis. 2009 Nesbitt and others described the new genus and species Tawahallae. 2014 You and others described the new genus and species Panguraptor...
morphological differences between the femora of Dromomeron romeri and Tawahallae is published by Müller (2017), who rejects the hypothesis that the two...
or unidentified comparable form †Struthiomimus altus †Tawa – type locality for genus †Tawahallae – type locality for species †Tecovasuchus †Tecovasuchus...
published by Cullen et al. (2020). The discovery of sternal plates of Tawahallae from the Late Triassic of New Mexico and Arizona, representing the oldest...
et al. 2009 Kol ghuva gen. et sp. nov. Turner, Nesbitt, & Norell 2009 Tawahallae gen. et sp. nov. Nesbitt, Smith, Irmis, Turner, Downs, & Norell 2007...
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