Baurutitan

Bauru titan

• Bauru · Portuguese (place name) · the Bauru Group (Bauru Basin), the rock sequence in Brazil where it was found, named after the Bauru region of São Paulo
• titan · Greek · a giant, one of the Titans of Greek myth

The name combines "Bauru", for the Bauru Group, the Cretaceous rock sequence in Brazil that yielded the fossils, with the Greek "titan", meaning a giant. It refers to a large titanosaurian sauropod from that group. The only species, Baurutitan britoi, honours the Brazilian paleontologist Ignacio Brito.

Named by

Kellner, Campos and Trotta

Year named

2005

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Serra da Galga Formation, Bauru Group, near Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil

A valid titanosaur sauropod genus. It is known from a partial tail and some other postcranial remains. The exact age within the Late Cretaceous is debated, and Maastrichtian is the commonly cited stage.