Llukalkan

Field photograph to come

DV-1107Bajo de la Carpa Fm., Argentina

Llukalkan

DV-1107

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

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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