Caieiria allocaudata
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Caieiria 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Caieiria — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.