Named By: | Andrea Cau & Federico Fanti in 2015 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 160 Ma |
Location: | Italy - Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation |
Size: | Roughly estimated to have been about 3-4 meters in length |
Diet: | Carnivore/Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Partial skull and partial post cranial skeletal remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Plesiosauria | Pliosauridae | |
Anguanax is an extinct genus of basal pliosaurid known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of northern Italy. It contains a single species, Anguanax zignoi, known from a partially complete individual, representing the first articulated skeleton of an Italian plesiosaurian.