Caieiria
Field photograph to come
Caieiria
DV-1170 · type species Caieiria allocaudata
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Silva Junior et al. 2022
Field notes
About Caieiria
Caieiria was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Caieiria, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Serra da Galga Formation. It was named by Silva Junior et al. in 2022.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Aeolosaurini.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: 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