Caieiria Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Anterior caudal vertebra of the holotype seen from six different angles | |
Middle caudal vertebra of the holotype seen from six different angles | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
Clade: | †Aeolosaurini |
Genus: | †Caieiria Silva Junior et al., 2022 |
Type species | |
†Caieiria allocaudata Silva Junior et al., 2022
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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.[1]