Uberabatitan

Uberabatitan (meaning "Uberaba titan", in reference to where it was found) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.

These fossils were found in the uppermost portion of the Maastrichtian-age Serra da Galga Formation of the Bauru Group, in Uberaba, Minas Gerais.

[1] Uberabatitan ribeiroi was named by Leonardo Salgado and Ismar de Souza Carvalho in 2008,[1] based on specimens found at a road cut along Federal Highway BR-050[2] in Uberaba, Minas Gerais.

All the specimens attributed to U. ribeiroi were found in a single quarry, and have been accessioned at the Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas Llewellyn Ivor Price (CPPLIP) at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro.

[10] Phylogenetic position of Uberabatitan in an analysis by Silva and colleagues in 2019:[3] Andesaurus Rukwatitan Malawisaurus Puertasaurus Austroposeidon Mendozasaurus Futalognkosaurus Quetecsaurus Isisaurus Epachthosaurus Pellegrinisaurus Maxakalisaurus Tapuiasaurus Trigonosaurus Lirainosaurus Ampelosaurus Bonitasaura Dreadnoughtus Alamosaurus Opisthocoelicaudia Neuquensaurus Rocasaurus Saltasaurus Rapetosaurus Brasilotitan Uberabatitan Aeolosaurus maximus Muyelensaurus Rinconsaurus Overosaurus Gondwanatitan Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis Aeolosaurus rionegrinus Possible close relatives of Uberabatitan include Laplatasaurus and Brasilotitan.

[3] In an analysis that included neither Laplatasaurus nor Brasilotitan, Uberabatitan was recovered as a member of Aeolosaurini most closely related to Bravasaurus, Gondwanatitan, and Trigonosaurus.