| Athabascasaurus Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous,
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| Holotype specimen in Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Platypterygiinae |
| Genus: | †Athabascasaurus Druckenmiller & Maxwell, 2010 |
| Species: | †A. bitumineus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Athabascasaurus bitumineus Druckenmiller & Maxwell, 2010
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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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