Genus
Valid Extinct

Santanadactylus

Buisonjé 1980

Santanadactylus is a potentially dubious genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Albian-aged Romualdo Member of the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation, of Barra do Jardim, Araripe Plateau, Ceará State, Brazil. Four species have been named, but today are not considered congeneric with each other. It was a rather large pterosaur.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Santanadactylus
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Fossil of Santanadactylus pricei and Anhanguera santanae, an extinct pterosaur- Took the photo at Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt © Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Pteranodontidae Family
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Santanadactylus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
Geological formations
Romualdo
2
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Santanadactylus brasilensis 120 Ma
Santanadactylus spixi 120 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
P. H. Buisonjé. 1980. Santanadactylus brasilensis nov. gen., nov. sp., a long-necked, large pterosaurier from the Aptian of Brasil. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, B 83:145-172
Bibliography (2)
P. Wellnhofer. 1985. Neue Pterosaurier aus der Santana-Formation (Apt) der Chapada do Araripe, Brasilien. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 187:105-182
P. H. Buisonjé. 1980. Santanadactylus brasilensis nov. gen., nov. sp., a long-necked, large pterosaurier from the Aptian of Brasil. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, B 83:145-172