Traukutitan
Name:
Traukutitan
(Trauku titan).
Phonetic: Twow-ku-ti-tan.
Named By: R. D. Ju�rez Valieri & J.
O. Calvo - 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lognkosauria?
Species: T. eocaudata
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Argentina - Bajo de la Carpa
Formation.
Time period: Santonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial but semi articulated
post cranial skeleton, with elements including 13 caudal
(tail) vertebrae and hind limb bones.
Traukutitan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. Traukutitan was named after Trauku, an Araucanian mountain spirit. The species name T. eocaudata is a reference to the primitive appearing form of the caudal vertebrae. There is speculation that Traukutitan was a lognkosaurian titanosaur, and this might fit given that lognkosaurians are well known from South America during the Santonian stage of the Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Report of a sauropod with amphiplatyan mid-caudal vertebrae from
the Late Cretaceous of Neuqu�n province (Argentina). -
Ameghiniana, 30: 215-218. - Leonardo Salgado & Jorge
Orlando Calvo - 1993.
- Revision of MUCPv 204, a Senonian basal titanosaur from
northern Patagonia. - Dinosaurios y Paleontolog�a desde Am�rica
Latina. Anales del III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontolog�a.
Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Neuqu�n 143-152.
- R. D. Ju�rez Valieri & J. O. Calvo - 2011.
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