The new species belongs to the family tree of titanosaur dinosaurs, but is unique because of the
Arackar licanantay is the name in the local Kunza language, which means"Atacameño bones" – lived in the territory of the current Atacama region at the end of the Cretaceous period, 80-66 million years oldBack.
The fossil specimen remains from a largea four-legged herbivore measuring about 6.3 meters in length. At the same time, scientists determined that the remains belong to a young individual. Adults are estimated to grow up to 8 meters in length.
Titanosaurs are a genus of plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs from the clade Lithostrotia, which lived in the Upper Cretaceous Epoch in what is now Asia, Africa, Europe and South America.It was 9-12 meters long.
Bones - femur, humerus, sciatic andvertebral parts of the neck and back - first discovered in the 1990s by geologist Carlos Arevalo. He excavated a specimen with experts from the National Geological and Mining Service of Chile during excavations 75 kilometers south of Copiapo city in the Atacama region.
David Rubilar, Head of PaleontologyThe Chilean National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), led the team responsible for the discovery, which included experts from the Chilean National Museum of Natural History, the University of Chile Paleontological Network and the Natural Sciences Laboratory of the Argentine National University in Cuyo.
The discovery of a new dinosaur species was officially announced in an article published in the journal Cretaceous Research.
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