Brasilotitan
Field photograph to come
Brasilotitan
DV-0845
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Machado et al. 2013
Field notes
About Brasilotitan
Brasilotitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Brasilotitan, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Adamantina Formation. It was named by Machado et al. in 2013.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rinconsauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. B. Machado, L. S. Avilla, and W. R. Nava, D. A. Campos, A. W. A. Kellner. 2013. A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Zootaxa 3701(3):301-321