Brasileodactylus
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| 110 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Waiter , 1984 |
Brasileodactylus araripensis is a fossil representative of the flying dinosaur from the Santana Formation in Brazil . It belongs tothe Ornithocheiridae family and lived about 110 million years ago.
This fossil was described in 1984 by the paleontologist AWA Kellner on the basis of the only known skeletal remains, a piece of dentition with downwardly curved teeth.