A couple days ago, I made a plan to write a short blog post whenever there’s a new paper on sauropods. Just to get into the habit of writing, you know? Well, the first sauropod paper since I made that plan has come out and there’s not a lot to say about it. I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing for my first blog post of this type.

Luis Gomes da Costa Pereira et al. describe five partial rebbachisaurid tail vertebrae from the mid-Cretaceous Açu Formation of Brazil. They show general similarities to rebbachisaurids from both South America and Europe, but their precise relationships cannot be determined due to their incompleteness. There isn’t a lot to say here, other than a minor range extension for rebbachisaurids, as these are the easternmost Brazilian specimens of the clade.