| Arackar | |
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| 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 | |
Scientific classification 
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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
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| Binomial name | |
| †Arackar licanantay Rubilar-Rogers et al., 2021
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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]
- ^ Vilte, julio (2004). Kunza : diccionario kunza-español / español-kunza : lengua del pueblo lickan antai o atacameño. Chile: Codelco Chile. ISBN 956-8072-03-9.
- ^ 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.