A Tepui is a special type of mountain with steep cliffs and a flat top. The most prominent ones are those found in the Canaima National Park in Venezuela.
This landscape form was the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle when he wrote the famous book The Lost World, in which a group of victorian era explorers set out to find an isolated world containing dinosaurs.
The biome is not meant as a regular biome but compares better to a dungeon, in a way. The whole biome is a single big plateau on which hostile mobs spawn (also during day, possibly by spawners), and on which the player finds treasures. With the upcoming archeology feature, it might be that the biome holds a bigger than usual amount of dig sites.
One possibility for the hostile mobs might be raptors, and there might be ruins of an ancient civilization for the treasure, but that is just one of many possibilities. In any case, it should feel like a wide ranged dungeon.
The player would find it by buying a map from a cartographer, similar to finding Woodland Mansions. A focus lies on the concept of exploration, with the player having a small adventure finding it and searching through the area.
I imagine it to appear as a sort mountain jungle, with it's own exotic fauna and flora. Some ideas for that would be carnivorous plants like sundew, giant arthropods from the carboniferous era and dinosaurs.
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