Traukutitan

Field photograph to come

DV-0806Bajo de la Carpa Fm., Argentina

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

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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