Outline: a typical sauropod
Arackar
"skeleton"
Type species Arackar licanantay
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Chile
- Named by
- Rubilar-Rogers et al. 2021
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
75 million years ago
Field notes
About Arackar
What it was like
Arackar was a small titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from bones of the neck, back, hips and legs.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now northern Chile.
How it was found
Rubilar-Rogers and colleagues named it in 2021. The type species is Arackar licanantay. Its name comes from a local language.
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. Rubilar-Rogers, A. O. Vargas, and B. González Riga, S. Soto-Acuña, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, J. Iriarte-Díaz, C. Arévalo, C. S. Gutstein. 2021. Arackar licanantay gen. et sp. nov. a new lithostrotian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Atacama Region, northern Chile. Cretaceous Research