CAIEIRIA
an aeolosaurin titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
Pronunciation: kai-eye-ree-uh
Meaning: for Caieira
Author/s: Silva Junior
et al. (
2022)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Discovery Chart Position: #1057
Caieiria allocaudata
(Caieira Strange tail)Etymology
Caieiria is derived from "Caieira", the quarry where the type-specimen was found.
The
species epithet,
allocaudata, is derived from the Greek "allos" (strange) and the Latin "cauda" (tail).
ZooBank registry:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7E981FB6-6165-4851-B65A-C3C588FD9021.
Discovery
The remains of
Caieiria were discovered in the Bauru Group's Serra da Galga Formation (formerly the Serra da Galga Member of the Marília Formation) at Caieira Quarry, aka "Quarry 1" or "Ponto 1", in the Veadinho Hills (Serra do Veadinho) near Peirópolis Town, Uberaba Municipality, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, by Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1957.
The
holotype (MCT 1719-R) is a series of ten tail vertebrae that was previously the paratype of
Trigonosaurus pricei.
Preparators
Otávio da Silva Santos and Luiz Júlio da Silva.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 71-66 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Powell JE (1987) "The Late Cretaceous fauna of Los Alamitos, Patagonia, Argentina part VI - The Titanosaurids".
Revista del Museo Argentino Ciencias Naturales, 3: 147–153.
• Campos DDA and Kellner AW (1999) "On some sauropod (Titanosauridae) pelves from the continental Cretaceous of Brazil".
National Science Museum Monographs, 15: 143–166.
• Campos DDA, Kellner AW, Bertini RJ and Santucci RM (2005) "
On a titanosaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) vertebral column from the Bauru group, Late Cretaceous of Brazil".
Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 63(3): 565–593.
• Silva Junior JCG, Martinelli AG, Marinho TS, da Silva JI and Langer MC (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: 10.7717/peerj.14333
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