Caieiria

Caieiria
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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

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.

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