Dinosauria›Saurischia
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Uberabatitan Uberabatitan ribeiroi Salgado and Carvalho 2008
/jˌuːbɚɹɐbˈæɾɪtən/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 72.2–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Brazil
Region
Minas Gerais
Formation
Serra da Galga
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Uberabatitan ribeiroi is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 72.2–66.0 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was named by Salgado and Carvalho 2008. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Uberabatitan ribeiroi sits in deep time
Uberabatitan
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Uberabatitan ribeiroi's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.