Santanaraptor (meaning "Santana Formation thief") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian-early Albian), about 115-110 million years ago. It is known from a partial juvenile specimen recovered with fragments of mineralized soft tissue, including, muscle and skin tissue, but unfortunately no trace of the skins external covering, which was unearthed in 1996 from the Romualdo Group (Santana Formation) in the Ceará State, northeastern Brazil. While primarily known from hindquarter elements, the individual represented by the fossil may have reached 1.25 metres (4.1 ft) in length. The fossil consists of bones from the pelvis, hindlimbs, and tail. These provide little information on its overall appearance. However, it was definitely a c