Arackar licanantay
"skeleton"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Arackar 6.3 m (20.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6.3 m (20.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (83.6–66 Mya)
- Place
- Chile
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Arackar (meaning “skeleton” in Kunza) 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.
What we know
- Named by Rubilar-Rogers et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 6.3 m.
- Fossils found in Chile.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Arackar — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.