Scanisaurus was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Scanisaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in Asia and Europe.

All the Scanisaurus illustrations below were collected from the internet. Enjoy and explore:

Scanisaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
  • P. O. Persson. 1960. Reptiles from the Senonian (U Cret) of Scania (S Sweden). Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi 2(35):431-478
  • M. Siverson. 1992. Late Cretaceous Paraorthacodus (Palaeospinacidae, Neoselachii) from Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 66:994-1001