Genus

Valid Extinct

Caieiria

Silva Junior et al. 2022

Caieiria is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation of Brazil. The type and only species is Caieiria allocaudata.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Anterior caudal vertebrae of Caieiria allocaudata (MCT 1719-R). In (1) left lateral; (2) anterior; (3) dorsal; (4) right lateral; (5) posterior and (6) ventral views. Abbreviations: ns, neural spine; pocdf, postzygapophyseal centrodiapophyseal fossa prz, prezygapophyses; sprl, spinoprezygapophyseal lamina; tp, transverse process. © Silva Junior et al. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Saurischia Unranked clade

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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade

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Massopoda Unranked clade

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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade

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Sauropoda Unranked clade

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Gravisauria Unranked clade

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Eusauropoda Unranked clade

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Neosauropoda Unranked clade

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Macronaria Unranked clade

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Titanosauriformes Unranked clade

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Somphospondyli Unranked clade

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Titanosauria Unranked clade

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Lithostrotia Unranked clade

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Aeolosaurini Unranked clade

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Caieiria Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇧🇷 Brazil

Geological formations

Serra da Galga

Temporal distribution

Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)

Species (1)

Caieiria allocaudata 72 Ma

Images 2

Bibliography

Original description

J. C. G. Silva Junior, A. G. Martinelli, and T. S. Marinho, J. I. Silva, M. C. Langer. 2022. New specimens of Baurutitan britoi and a taxonomic reassessment of the titanosaur dinosaur fauna (Sauropoda) from the Serra da Galga Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Brazil. PeerJ 10:e14333 DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)

Caieiria

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