Traukutitan
Field photograph to come
Traukutitan
DV-0806 · type species Traukutitan eocaudata
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Juárez Valieri and Calvo 2011
Field notes
About Traukutitan
Traukutitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Traukutitan, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was named by Juárez Valieri and Calvo in 2011.
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 Lognkosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. D. Juárez Valieri and J. O. Calvo. 2011. Revision of MUCPv 204, a Senonian basal titanosaur from northern Patagonia. Dinosaurios y Paleontología desde América Latina. Anales del III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Neuquén