Arackar

Arackar
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 83.6–66 Ma Campanian-Maastrichtian
Model, next to one of Saltasaurus (from the Carnegie collection), and remains of Arackar licanantay, presented in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN) from Chile
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Titanosauria
Clade: Lithostrotia
Genus: Arackar
Rubilar-Rogers et al., 2021
Species:
A. licanantay
Binomial name
Arackar licanantay
Rubilar-Rogers et al., 2021

Arackar (meaning "skeleton" in Kunza[1]) is an extinct genus of lithostrotian sauropod, possibly part of the Saltasauridae, discovered in the Hornitos Formation of Atacama Province, Chile. The genus contains a single species, Arackar licanantay, described by Rubilar-Rogers et al. in 2021.[2]

  1. ^ Vilte, julio (2004). Kunza : diccionario kunza-español / español-kunza : lengua del pueblo lickan antai o atacameño. Chile: Codelco Chile. ISBN 956-8072-03-9.
  2. ^ Rubilar-Rogers, D.; Vargas, A. O.; González Riga, B.; Soto-Acuña, S.; Alarcón-Muñoz, J.; Iriarte-Díaz, J.; Arévalo, C.; Gutstein, C. S. (2021). "Arackar licanantay gen. et sp. nov. a new lithostrotian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Atacama Region, northern Chile". Cretaceous Research. 124: Article 104802. Bibcode:2021CrRes.12404802R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104802. S2CID 233780252.