Uberabatitan

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 Marília 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.[1] Like other sauropods, Uberabatitan would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.[2]

Uberabatitan
Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous, 67 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Titanosauria
Genus: Uberabatitan
Salgado and Carvalho, 2008
Species
  • U. ribeiroi Salgado and Carvalho, 2008 (type)

A 2019 redescription of assigned and new material from the same locality places Uberabatitan as a non-saltasaurid lithostrotian with an upper body size estimate for large individuals at 26 meters.[3]

Titanosauria

Andesaurus

Lithostrotia

Rukwatitan

Malawisaurus

Puertasaurus

Austroposeidon

Lognkosauria

Mendozasaurus

Futalognkosaurus

Quetecsaurus

Isisaurus

Epachthosaurus

Pellegrinisaurus

Maxakalisaurus

Tapuiasaurus

Trigonosaurus

Lirainosaurus

Ampelosaurus

Bonitasaura

Dreadnoughtus

Saltasauridae

Alamosaurus

Opisthocoelicaudia

Saltasaurinae

Neuquensaurus

Rocasaurus

Saltasaurus

Aeolosaurini

Rapetosaurus

Brasilotitan

Uberabatitan

Aeolosaurus maximus

Rinconsauria

Muyelensaurus

Rinconsaurus

Overosaurus

Gondwanatitan

Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis

Aeolosaurus rionegrinus

References

  1. Salgado, Leonardo; and Carvalho; Ismar de Souza (2008). "Uberabatitan ribeiroi, a new titanosaur from the Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brazil". Palaeontology. 51 (4): 881–901. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00781.x.
  2. Upchurch, Paul; Barrett, Paul M.; Dodson, Peter. (2004). "Sauropoda". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 259–322. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  3. Silva, J.C.G. Jr.; Marinho, T.S.; Martinelli, A.G.; Langer, M.C. (2019). "Osteology and systematics of Uberabatitan ribeiroi (Dinosauria; Sauropoda): a Late Cretaceous titanosaur from Minas Gerais, Brazil". Zootaxa. 4577 (3): 401–438. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.1.


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