Uberabatitan
Uberabatitan was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Brazil. It was one of the last titanosaurs, roaming the Earth near the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs. With a body as long as a basketball court, it must have been an amazing sight!1
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Uberabatitan is known from more than sixty bones, representing at least five individuals of different ages and sizes.1
Its name honors the city of Uberaba and Luiz Carlos Borges Ribeiro, a paleontology center director.1
One tooth found at the site may belong to Uberabatitan and is the largest titanosaur tooth ever discovered, with a crown 6.2 cm (2.4 in) tall.1
Uberabatitan had hyper-elongate cervical ribs, much of which were made of ossified tendons.1
Like other sauropods, Uberabatitan grew quickly when young, then slowed down as it got older.1
No skull has been found for Uberabatitan, but it may have had a broad, squared-off snout like some other titanosaurs.1
Most asked questions about Uberabatitan
?How big was Uberabatitan?
It could reach a length of about 26 metres (85 ft), though most known specimens were much smaller.1
?What did Uberabatitan eat?
It was a herbivore, eating plants. Its teeth were slender and chisel-like, good for stripping leaves.1
?When did Uberabatitan live?
It lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 67 million years ago, near the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs.1
?Where was Uberabatitan found?
Its fossils were found in the Serra da Galga Formation in Minas Gerais, Brazil.1
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- Scientific name
- Uberabatitan
- Named by
- Salgado and Carvalho 20084
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Rinconsauria4
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
- Age of the rocks
- 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)4
- Rock formations
- Serra da Galga4
- Countries
- Brazil4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Uberabatitan was named in 2008 by Leonardo Salgado and Ismar de Souza Carvalho. The fossils were found at a road cut along Federal Highway BR-050 in Uberaba, Brazil.12
- Still debated
- Scientists are still debating whether some other fossils from the same formation, like a nearly complete neck, belong to Uberabatitan or a close relative.1
Where the facts come from
- Uberabatitan (en.wikipedia.org)
- Uberabatitan ribeiroi, a new titanosaur from the Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brazil | The Palaeontological Association (palass.org)
- Uberabatitan (pt.wikipedia.org)
- Uberabatitan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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