Tawa Traditional Cache
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Tawa (named after the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period. It is estimated to have been 2 m (6.5 ft) long. In 2004, a partial skeleton was excavated, and in 2006 two nearly complete fossil skeletons of Tawa and parts of six others were found close together in the Hayden Quarry at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico (part of the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation) in strata dating to approximately 215-213 million years ago. The discovery is significant and suggests that the earliest dinosaurs arose in the ancient area of Gondwana that is now South America and spread from there. The type species is T. hallae, described in 2009 by Nesbitt et al. The specific name honours Ruth Hall, founder of the Ghost Ranch Museum of Paleontology.
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