Teyuwasu

Teyuwasu Temporal range: Late Triassic PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria?
Order:	Saurischia?
Genus:	Teyuwasu Kischlat, 1999
Species
T. barbarenai Kischlat, 1999 (type)

Teyuwasu is a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Late Triassic. Named by Edio-Ernst Kischlat in 1999, little is known about this genus; the type species, T. barbarenai, was named from leg bones (a femur and a tibia) discovered in paleorrota geopark, Brazil. The specific name honors Dr. Mário Costa Barberena, a South American paleontologist. Teyuwasu means "big lizard" in the Tupi language. The holotype, 1933L 53-54, 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

• Details on Teyuwasu, from the Dinosaur Mailing List