Santanaraptor
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- Early Cretaceous
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Santanaraptor (meaning "Santana Formation thief") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian-early Albian), about 112 million years ago.
==Discovery== The type species is S. placidus, first described by Kellner in 1999. The species epithet refers to , who founded the Museu de Paleontologia da Universidade Regional do Cariri.
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