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In this paper, we investigate the construction and identification of a new random field model for representing the constitutive behavior of laminated composites. Here, the material is modeled as a random hyperelastic medium characterized by a spatially dependent, stochastic and anisotropic strain energy function. The latter is parametrized by a set of material parameters, modeled as non-Gaussian random fields. From a probabilistic standpoint, the construction is first achieved by invoking information theory and the principle of maximum entropy. Constraints related to existence theorems in finite elasticity are, in particular, accounted for in the formulation. The identification of the parameters defining the random fields is subsequently addressed. This issue is attacked as a two-step problem where the mean model is calibrated in a first step, by imposing a match between the linearized model and nominal values …