Uberabatitan
Field photograph to come
Uberabatitan
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Salgado and Carvalho 2008
Field notes
About Uberabatitan
Uberabatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Uberabatitan, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Serra da Galga Formation. It was named by Salgado and Carvalho in 2008.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rinconsauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. Salgado and I. S. Carvalho. 2008. Uberabatitan ribeiroi, a new titanosaur from the Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brazil. Palaeontology 51(4):881-901