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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Platypterygiinae |
| Genus: | †Parrassaurus Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega, 2021 |
| Type species | |
| †Parrassaurus yacahuitztli Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega, 2021
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Parrassaurus is an ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the late Jurassic La Caja Formation of Mexico named in 2021. Parrassaurus includes one species, Parrassaurus yacahuitztli.[1] The type specimen (CPC 307) was around 5 metres (16 ft) long.[2]
- ^ Barrientos-Lara, J. I.; Alvarado-Ortega, J. (2021). "A new Tithonian ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from Coahuila in northeastern Mexico". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1080/03115518.2021.1922755.
- ^ Marie–Céline Buchy; José Guadalupe López Oliva (2009). "Occurrence of a second ichthyosaur genus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) in the Late Jurassic Gulf of Mexico". Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 62 (2): 233-238. doi:10.18268/BSGM2009V61N2A11. ISSN 1405-3322. S2CID 54774650.