In Depth
Traukutitan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. Traukutitan was named after Trauku, an Araucanian mountain spirit. The species name T. eocaudata is a reference to the primitive appearing form of the caudal vertebrae. There is speculation that Traukutitan was a lognkosaurian titanosaur, and this might fit given that lognkosaurians are well known from South America during the Santonian stage of the Cretaceous.
Further Reading
- Report of a sauropod with amphiplatyan mid-caudal vertebrae from the Late Cretaceous of Neuqu�n province (Argentina). - Ameghiniana, 30: 215-218. - Leonardo Salgado & Jorge Orlando Calvo - 1993. - Revision of MUCPv 204, a Senonian basal titanosaur from northern Patagonia. - Dinosaurios y Paleontolog�a desde Am�rica Latina. Anales del III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontolog�a. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Neuqu�n 143-152. - R. D. Ju�rez Valieri & J. O. Calvo - 2011.
