Brasilotitan
"Brazil giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Brasilotitan 12 m (39 ft) long
as long as 7 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 12 m (39 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–70 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Brasilotitan (meaning “Brazil giant”) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species is Brasilotitan nemophagus. Brasilotitan was a small titanosaur with a squared-off snout, and may be closely related to another Brazilian titanosaur, Uberabatitan.
What we know
- Named by Machado et al., 2013.
- Body length estimated at about 12 m.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Brasilotitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.