Caieiria
Name: Caieiria
(named after the location where the holotype was discovered).
Phonetic: Cai-ei-re-ah.
Named By: Julian C. G. Silva, Agustín G.
Martinelli, Thiago S. Marinho, João Ismael da Silva, &
Max C. Langer - 2022.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia,
Aeolosaurini.
Species: C. allocaudata
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Brazil - Serra da Galga
Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Caudal vertebrae.
Caieiria
is a genus of titanosaur that lived in South America during the late
Cretaceous. At the time of its naming, Caieiria
was only known from
tail vertebrae. These vertebrae however show strongly developed side
process as well as vertical spines about half the height of the centra
(the round disc part of the vertebrae). The anterior caudal
vertebrae also show a developed excavation. It is a combination of
these features which led to the type species name of C.
allocaudata,
the allocaudata part basically meaning ‘strange tail’.
Like
other Titanosaurs, Caieiria is expected to have
had the long the neck
and tail of other similar dinosaurs of its kind, as like relatives,
possibly armoured osteoderm plates within the skin of its body, though
at the time of writing that is just conjecture for this dinosaur.
Further reading
- 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. -
Julian C. G. Silva, Agustín G. Martinelli, Thiago S.
Marinho, João Ismael da Silva, & Max C. Langer -
2022.
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