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long-neck giant
Traukutitan
Say it like this: “TRAW-cu-TIE-tuhn”
Traukutitan eocaudata
Traukutitan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Santonian) · roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2011 · Juárez Valieri, R. D.; Calvo, J. O.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 24 m · 79 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Argentina · Bajo de la Carpa
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Titanosauria
The story in short
The genus Traukutitan dates to 2011, the year R. D. Juárez Valieri and J. O. Calvo described it. The name means “trauku titan.”
Fossils referred to Traukutitan date to the Late Cretaceous (Santonian), roughly 85.7 to 83.6 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Traukutitan at a length near 24 m.
On the family tree it sits in Titanosauria, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aegyptosaurus
Aegyptosaurus baharijensis
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Andesaurus
Andesaurus delgadoi
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Antarctosaurus
Antarctosaurus wichmannianus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago