Traukutitan
| Traukutitan | |
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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: | †Lognkosauria |
| Genus: | †Traukutitan Juárez Valieri & Calvo, 2011 |
| Type species | |
| †Traukutitan eocaudata Juárez Valieri & Calvo, 2011
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Traukutitan is a
age).Discovery
Fossils of Traukutitan were recovered from the lowermost section of the
titan, the name of the Greek mythological giants. The specific name is derived from Greek eos, "dawn", and Latin cauda, "tail", a reference to the basal morphology of the middle caudal vertebrae.[2]
Description
Traukutitan has been described as a "large titanosaurid". The articular morphology of the middle tail vertebrae is a flat instead of a convex face on the
centra.[2]
The authors assigned Traukutitan to the
Titanosauridae; it is a possible member of the Lognkosauria.[2]
References
- ^ Salgado, L. and Calvo, J.O., 1993, "Report of a sauropod with amphiplatyan mid-caudal vertebrae from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén province (Argentina)", Ameghiniana, 30: 215-218
- ^ a b c d Rubén D. Juárez Valieri & Jorge O. Calvo (2011). "Revision of MUCPv 204, a Senonian Basal Titanosaur from Northern Patagonia". In Calvo; González; Riga; Porfiri & Dos Santos (eds.). Paleontología y dinosarios desde América Latina (PDF). pp. 143–152. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06.