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Santanadactylus (meaning "Santana Formation finger") 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.

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Santanadactylus (meaning "Santana Formation finger") 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.

==History and species==

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