Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Full reference: F. R. O’Keefe, E. Armour Smith, R. O. Clark, R. A. Otero, A. Perella and P. Trask. 2025. A name for the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia: a strange new elasmosaur taxon from the Santonian of Vancouver Island. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1):2489938
Belongs to Traskasaura according to F. R. O’Keefe et al. 2025
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CDM 002, a skeleton. Its type locality is Puntledge River, which is in a Santonian marine siliciclastic in the Haslam Formation of Canada.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: British Columbia collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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