Caieiria allocaudata Caieiria

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Caieiria 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
Brazil
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

Caieiria (named after the Caieira locality where its fossils were recovered) is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation (formerly a unit of the Marília Formation) of Brazil. The type and only species is Caieiria allocaudata.

What we know

  • Named by Silva Junior et al., 2022.
  • Fossils found in Brazil.