Scanisaurus

Taxobox
name = "Scanisaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Plesiosauria
subordo = Plesiosauroidea
familia = Cimoliasauridae
familia_authority = Persson, 1960
genera = "Scanisaurus"
binomial =
binomial_authority =

"Scanisaurus" meaning "Scania (Sweden) lizard", is a genus of plesiosaur. Person 1996 has classified "Scanisaurus" in the Cimoliasauridae, as a mesodiran plesiosaur, with a larger head and relatively shorter neck than in dolichodiran (long-necked) plesiosaurs. "Scanisaurus" lived during the Late Cretaceous (Senonian) of Sweden. It is considered nomen dubium.