BAURUTITAN
a plant-eating titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brasil.
Pronunciation: BOH-roo-TIE-tuhn
Meaning: Bauru giant
Author/s: Kellner
et al. (
2005)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Discovery Chart Position: #575
Baurutitan britoi
(Brito's Bauru giant)Etymology
Baurutitan combines "Bauru" (for the Bauru Group of Brazil where it was found) and the Greek "Titan" (primordial giants in Greek mythology who ruled Mount Olympus before Zeus and his Olympians).
The
species epithet,
britoi, honors
Brazilian paleontologist Ignacio Aureliano Machado Brito (1938-2001) who advised several students including two of the authors who described
Baurutitan.
Discovery
The remains of
Baurutitan were discovered at Caieira Quarry (aka Price Quarry 1) in the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation (Bauru Group), São Luis Farm, Veadinho Hill, near the town of Uberaba, Peirópolis region, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, by Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1957.
The
holotype (MCT 1490-R), the last hip vertebra attached to a series of eighteen tail vertebrae, represents the entirety of its remains. They were briefly described by Powell in 1987 and referred to as the "Series C" of
Titanosaurus sp.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 71-66 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Powell JE (1987) "Morfología del esqueleto axial de
los dinosaurios titanosauridos (Saurichia,
Sauropoda) del Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil".
In:
CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE PALEONTOLOGIA, 10., Rio de Janeiro, Anais..., Rio de Janeiro: Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia, 1: 155-17.
• Kellner AWA, Campos DA and Trotta MNF (2005) "
Description of a titanosaurid caudal series from the Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous of Brazil".
Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63:529-564.
• Silva Junior JCG, Martinelli AG, Marinho TS, da Silva JI and Langer MC (2022) "New specimens of
Baurutitan britoi and a taxonomic reassessment of the titanosaur dinosaur fauna (Sauropoda) from the Serra da Galga Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Brazil".
PeerJ, 10: e14333. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14333.
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