Species
Valid Extinct

Athabascasaurus bitumineus

Druckenmiller and Maxwell 2010

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Baracromia Unranked clade
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Ophthalmosauridae Family
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Platypterygiinae Subfamily
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Athabascasaurus Genus
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Athabascasaurus bitumineus Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
Clearwater
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
P. S. Druckenmiller and E. E. Maxwell. 2010. A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1037-1053 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
P. S. Druckenmiller and E. E. Maxwell. 2010. A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1037-1053 DOI ↗