UBERABATITAN
a plant-eating titinosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brasil.
Pronunciation: yoo-buh-rab-uh-tie-tuhn
Meaning: Uberaba giant
Author/s: Salgado and Carvalho (
2008)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Discovery Chart Position: #653
Uberabatitan ribeiroi
(Ribeiro's Uberaba Giant)Etymology
Uberabatitan is derived from "Uberaba" (the city where it was discovered) and the Greek "titan" (giant).
The
species epithet,
ribeiroi, honours Luiz Carlos Borges Ribeiro, director of the Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas Lewellyn Price, for his consistent support of palaeontological research in Minas Gerais State.
Discovery
The remains of
Uberabatitan were discovered at the "BR-050 B site" in the Serra da Galga Formation of the Bauru Group (previously known as the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation), Uberaba city, Minas Gerais state, Brasil.
More than sixty bones from what were thought to be three seperate specimens, of different sizes and probably different ages, were found at this quarry, with an acronym added to the end of their catalogue numbers to identify the individuals: "specimen A" (the holotype) = UrHo, "specimen B" = UrB, and "specimen C = UrC).
In 2019, Silva
et al canned the acronyms, having realised they represented at least five different specimens and possibly more, and stripped the initial
holotype down from thirty-nine bones to the three (CPPLIP-912: a left shin, CPPLIP-1107: a left calfbone, and CPPLIP-1082: a left ankle) that represent the most complete likely articulated set of elements. The rest of the original holotype were relegated to referred specimens along with those that were initially listed as "specimen B" and "specimen C", plus six more specimens that were later found at the same locality.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 71-66 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 22 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Salgado L and Carvalho I de S (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.
• Upchurch P, Barrett P.M. and Dodson P. (2004) "Sauropoda". Page 259–322 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Martinelli AG, Teixeira VPA, Marinho TS, Fonseca PHM, Cavellani CL, Araujo AJG, Ribeiro LCB and Ferraz MLF (2014) "Fused mid-caudal vertebrae in the titanosaur
Uberabatitan ribeiroi from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and other bone lesions".
Lethaia, 48(4): 456-462. DOI: 10.1111/let.12117. ISSN 0024-1164.
• Silva JCG Jr, Marinho TS, Martinelli AG and Langer MC (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. [based on Silva's 2018 dissertation.]
• Soares MVT, Basilici G, Marinho TS, Martinelli AG, Marconato A, Mountney NP, Colombera L, Mesquita AF, Vasques JT, Junior FRA and Ribeiro LCB (2021) "Sedimentology of a distributive fluvial system: The Serra da Galga Formation, a new lithostratigraphic unit (Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Basin, Brazil)".
Geological Journal, 56(2): 951–975. DOI: 10.1002/gj.3987.
• Windholz GJ, González R, Cerda IA, Bellardini F, Silva JCG, Marinho TS, Ribeiro LCB and Martinelli AG (2023)
"Osteohistology of
Uberabatitan ribeiroi (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) provides insight into the life history of titanosaurs".
Historical Biology, 1-11. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2253257.
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