Pronunciation: YOO-tee-TIE-tuhn
Meaning: Ute giant
Author/s: Paul (2025)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Utah, USA
Discovery Chart Position: #1181
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UTETITAN
a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 71-66 myaStats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: HerbivoreReferences
• Gilmore CW (1946) "Reptilian fauna of the North Horn Formation of central Utah". United States Department of the Interior. Shorter Contributions to General Geology. Professional Paper 210-C: 29-53. DOI: 10.3133/PP210C.
• Carrano MT and D'Emic MD (2015) "Osteoderms of the titanosaur sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore, 1922". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35(1): e901334. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.901334.
• Curtice B (2017) "Remembering the Alamosaurus: Jensen relocates Gilmore's Alamosaurus Quarry, USNM 15560, North Horn Formation, Emery County, Utah, and discovers a second individual Alamosaurus". Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 47(1): 1-5. DOI: 10.2181/036.047.0101.
• Paul GS (2024) "The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Third Edition".
• Paul GS (2025) "Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America". Geology of the Intermountain West, 12: 201–220. DOI: 10.31711/giw.v12.pp201-220.
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Atkinson, L. "UTETITAN :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive".
‹http://www.dinochecker.com/dinosaurs/UTETITAN›. Web access: 06th Mar 2026.
Atkinson, L. "UTETITAN :: from DinoChecker's dinosaur archive".
‹http://www.dinochecker.com/dinosaurs/UTETITAN›. Web access: 06th Mar 2026.
