Traskasaura was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Traskasaura lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in North America.
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Traskasaura was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- E. L. Nicholls and D. Meckert. 2002. Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(11):1591-1603
- F. R. O’Keefe, E. Armour Smith, and R. O. Clark, R. A. Otero, A. Perella, 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
