Santanadactylus

• Brazil ( Santana Formation)

Santanadactylus ( " Santanafinger " ) was a pterosaur from South America. Fossils of this genus are from the 110 million years old sedimentary rocks from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation in Brazil.

PH de Buisonjé published in 1980 the first scientific description of this pterosaur. Its systematic position is not yet fully understood, so ordered him Bennet 1989 at the Dsungaripteridae and also considered that it is a mixture of bones of two species in the Fund. Kellner & Campos put him in their work from 1992 to the Tapejaridae. Is named the genus after its locality, the Santana Formation and the long flight finger ( " dactylus "). The specific epithet honors Johann Baptist von Spix, one of the first discoverer of the fossils in the Santana Formation.

In contrast to the other members of the genus S. brasiliensis, S. and S. araripensis pricei the membership of p spixi is not fully understood in the genus.