Anguanax zignoi Cau and Fanti 2016 (plesiosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Full reference: A. Cau and F. Fanti. 2016. High evolutionary rates and the origin of the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation (Middle-Upper Jurassic of Italy) reptiles. Historical Biology 28(7):952-962

Belongs to Anguanax according to A. Cau and F. Fanti 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPPL 18797, a partial skeleton (Partial skull and mandible, 32 isolated teeth, cervical, dorsal and caudal vertebrae, right scapulocoracoid, partial left humerus, left radius, left ulna, three). Its type locality is Kaberlaba quarry, near Asiago, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian carbonate mudstone in the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Italy.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kaberlaba quarry, near Asiago

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