Teyuwasu

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Teyuwasu

Teyuwasu is a dubious genus

Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
from the Late Triassic

Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epoch s of the Triassic geological timescale. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic....
. Named by E.E. Kischlat in 1999, little is currently known about this genus; the type species

Type species

In taxonomy, a type species is the species that originally defined a genus . It is an individual specimen that fixes the name of a genus . Two different definitions are used interchangeably, in a general term and a botanical term....
, T. barbarenai, was named from leg bones (a femur

Femur

The femur, or thigh bone, is the most proximal bone of the leg in vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles such as lizards, and amphibians such as frogs....
and a tibia

Tibia

The tibia, shinbone, or shankbone is the larger and stronger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates and connects the knee with the ankle bones....
) discovered in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, and is named in honor of Dr. M.C. Barberena, a South American paleontologist. Teyuwasu means "big lizard" in the Tupi language. The holotype

Holotype

A holotype is one of several possible biological types. A type is what fixes a name to a taxon. A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described....
is held at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , also known as LMU, is a university in Munich and, with more than 44,000 students, is the second-largest university in Germany....
.

The remains of Teyuwasu were originally attributed by Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene was a Germany paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.Huene was born in T?bingen, Kingdom of W?rttemberg....
in 1938 to the aetosaur

Aetosaur

File:Aetosaur, PFNP.jpgThe aetosaurs are an extinct clade of heavily armoured, medium- to large-sized Late Triassic herbivore archosaurs. Two distinct subdivisions of aeotosaurs are currently recognized, the Desmatosuchinae and the Aetosaurinae, based primarily on differences in the morphology of the bony scutes of the two groups ....
Hoplitosuchus.