Santanadactylus
Santanadactylus (meaning "Santana Formation finger") was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-age Romualdo Member of the Upper Cretaceous Santana Formation, of Barra do Jardim, Araripe Plateau, Ceará State, Brazil. Four species have been named, but today are no considered congeneric with each other. It was a rather large pterosaur.
| Santanadactylus Temporal range: Albian, | |
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| Fossil cast of S. pricei (above) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Pteranodontoidea |
| Genus: | †Santanadactylus De Buisonjé, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| †Santanadactylus brasilensis Buisonjé, 1980 | |
| Other species | |
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