[dinosaur] Tawa (pron.:`Ta-WAH`; named after the Hopi word for the Puebloan sun god) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period. The discovery of Tawa alongside the relatives of Coelophysis and Herrerasaurus supports the hypothesis that the earliest dinosaurs arose in Gondwana during the Late Triassic period in what is no... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa_(dinosaur)