Llukalkan
Field photograph to come
Llukalkan
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- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Gianechini et al. 2020
Field notes
About Llukalkan
Llukalkan was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago. It belongs to the family Abelisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Llukalkan, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was named by Gianechini et al. in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. A. Gianechini, A. H. Méndez, and L. S. Filippi, A. Paulina-Carabajal, R. D. Juárez-Valieri, A. C. Garrido. 2020. A new furileusaurian abelisaurid from La Invernada (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Bajo De La Carpa Formation), northern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology