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UBERABATITAN
(u-ber-ah-ty-tan)
meaning: "Uberaba titan"
Named By: Leoardo Salgado & Ismer de Souza Carvalho in 2008
Time Period: Late Cretaceous, 67 Ma
Location: Brazil - Marilia Formation
Size: Uncertain
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Limbs, pelvis and vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Sauropoda | Titanosauria |
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Uberabatitan (meaning "Uberaba titan", in reference to where it was found) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It is known from bones including neck, back, and tail vertebrae, pelvic bones, and limb bones. These fossils were found in the uppermost portion of the Maastrichtian-age Marilia Formation of the Bauru Group, in Uberaba, Minas Gerais. The type species, described by Salgado and Carvalho in 2008, is U. ribeiroi. To date, it is the most recent titanosaur from Bauru Group rocks; other titanosaurs from the Bauru Group, including Baurutitan and Trigonosaurus, come from lower (thus older) levels. Like other sauropods, Uberabatitan would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.

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