Holotype specimen in Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
†Ichthyosauria
Family:
†Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily:
†Platypterygiinae
Genus:
†Athabascasaurus Druckenmiller & Maxwell, 2010
Species:
†A. bitumineus
Binomial name
†Athabascasaurus bitumineus
Druckenmiller & Maxwell, 2010
Athabascasaurus is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur known from Alberta, Canada.[1][2]
^Patrick S. Druckenmiller & Erin E. Maxwell (2010). "A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 47 (8): 1037–1053. Bibcode:2010CaJES..47.1037D. doi:10.1139/E10-028.
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