In 2000, William R. Nava collected the partial skeleton of a sauropod along a road in São Paulo state near Presidente Prudente city.

In 2013, a team of researchers, including Nava and led by Elaine B. Machado, described the remains as a new genus and species of sauropod, Brasilotitan nemophagus.

The symphyseal region of the dentary is slightly twisted medially, a feature never recorded before in any titanosaur.The neural spines of the cervical vertebrae are relatively low.

[1] Although the phylogenetic position of Brasilotitan is difficult to establish, the species is neither basal nor a derived member of Titanosauria.

Its discovery enriched the titanosaur diversity of Brazil and provided further new anatomical information on the lower jaws of those herbivorous dinosaurs.