Arackar

DV-1131 · 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

Field notes

About Arackar

Arackar was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Arackar, from Chile. Its fossils come from the Hornitos Formation. It was named by Rubilar-Rogers et al. in 2021.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

75 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Lithostrotia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, 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