Tralkasaurus cuyi Tralkasaurus
"thunder lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tralkasaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
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- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Abelisauridae
Tralkasaurus (meaning “thunder lizard”) is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Huincul Formation from Río Negro Province in Argentina. The type and only species is Tralkasaurus cuyi, named in 2020 by Mauricio Cerroni and colleagues based on an incomplete skeleton. A medium-sized abelisaurid, Tralkasaurus exhibits a conflicting blend of characteristics found among the early-diverging abelisauroids with others that characterize the highly specialized clade Brachyrostra, and thus its position within the clade is poorly-resolved.
What we know
- Named by Cerroni et al., 2020.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.