Uberabatitan
Name:
Uberabatitan
(Uberaba titan).
Phonetic: U-ber-ah-ty-tan.
Named By: Leoardo Salgado & Ismer de Souza
Carvalho - 2008.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Titanosauria.
Species: U. ribeiroi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Brazil - Marília Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Limbs, pelvis and vertebrae.
Uberabatitan is a genus of titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur that is known from the Marilla Formation of the bauru group of Brazil. Being Maastrichtian in age, Uberabatitan would have been one of the last titanosaurs to live before the KT extinction ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Further reading
- Uberabatitan ribeiroi, a new titanosaur from
the Marília
Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais,
Brazil. - Palaeontology 51 (4): 881–901. - Leoardo
Salgado & Ismer de Souza Carvalho - 2008.
- Osteology and systematics of Uberabatitan ribeiroi
(Dinosauria;
Sauropoda): a Late Cretaceous titanosaur from Minas Gerais, Brazil. -
Zootaxa. 4577 (3): 401–438. - J. C. G. Silva Jr., T. S. Marinho, A. G.
Martinelli & M. C. Langer - 2019.
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