Teyuwasu

Taxobox
name = "Teyuwasu"
fossil_range = Late Triassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria?
ordo = Saurischia?
genus = "Teyuwasu"
genus_authority=Kischlat, 1999
subdivision_ranks=Species
subdivision=
*"T. barbarenai" Kischlat, 1999 (type)

"Teyuwasu" is a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Late Triassic. Named by E.E. Kischlat in 1999, little is currently known about this genus; the type species, "T. barbarenai", was named from leg bones (a femur and a tibia) discovered in Brazil, and is named in honor of Dr. M.C. Barberena, a South American paleontologist. "Teyuwasu" means "big lizard" in the Tupi language. The holotype is held at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

The remains of "Teyuwasu" were originally attributed by Friedrich von Huene in 1938 to the aetosaur "Hoplitosuchus".

References

Kischlat, E.-E. (1999). "A new dinosaurian "rescued" from the Brazilian Triassic: "Teyuwasu barbarenai", new taxon". "Paleontologia em Destaque, Boletim Informativo da Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia" 14(26) 58.

External links

* [http://dml.cmnh.org/2000Sep/msg00572.html Details on "Teyuwasu", from the Dinosaur Mailing List]