Traskasaura

Traskasaura
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Santonian), ~
Reconstructed skeleton in the Canadian Museum of Nature
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Elasmosauridae
Genus: Traskasaura
O'Keefe et al., 2025
Species:
T. sandrae
Binomial name
Traskasaura sandrae
O'Keefe et al., 2025

Traskasaura (meaning "Trask lizard") is an extinct genus of basal elasmosaurid plesiosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian age) Haslam Formation of British Columbia, Canada. The genus contains a single species, Traskasaura sandrae, known from three partial skeletons. It is the first elasmosaurid discovered in and named from British Columbia.