Uberabatitan

Taxobox
name = "Uberabatitan"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Sauropoda
unranked_familia = Titanosauria
genus = "Uberabatitan"
genus_authority = Salgado and Carvalho, 2008
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "U. ribeiroi" Salgado and Carvalho, 2008 (type)

"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 Maastrichtian-age (~71-65 million years old) 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.cite journal |last=Salgado |first=Leonardo |coauthors=and Carvalho, Ismar de Souza |year=2008 |title= "Uberabatitan ribeiroi", a new titanosaur from the Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brazil |journal=Palaeontology |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=881-901 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00781.x] Like other sauropods, "Uberabatitan" would have been a large quadrupedal herbivore.cite book |last=Upchurch|first=Paul |coauthors=Barrett, Paul M., and Dodson, Peter. |editor=Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka. (eds.)|title=The Dinosauria |edition=2nd |year= 2004|publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |pages=259-322 |chapter=Sauropoda]

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