After information on Pterosauria as a whole, more specific data are given on Santanadactylus brasilensis, a lower Cretaceous Pterodactyloid with an estimated wingspan of six metres, newly described from northeastern Brasil (de Buisonjé, 1980). Although the type-material, namely parts of the right scapula-coracoid and right humerus (holotype), together with two cervical vertebrae (paratypes) is rather fragmentary, reconstruction of these skeletal elements is possible. Moreover, comparison of the reconstructed elements with other, more completely known, closely related species of Pterodactyloidea enabled a scientifically reliable reconstruction of skeletal parts, not present in the type-material of Santanadactylus.Both scientific as well as technical data are given on the complete skeletal reconstruction of Santanadactylus brasilensis, executed in plastics, exposed in soaring flight in the Geological Museum, University of Amsterdam.

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P.H. de Buisonjé. (1981). Santanadactylus brasilensis. Gea, 14(2), 37–48.