Genus: Quasianosteosaurus Maisch & Matzke, 2003
Etymology: Latin, quasi, "almost," Greek, anosteos, "boneless" and Greek, sauros, "lizard": Because the preservation of the holotype which is almost exclusively a natural cast of the skull with very little original bone substance preserved.

Species: vikinghoegdai Maisch & Matzke, 2003
Etymology: In reference to the type locality, Mount Vicking (Vikinghogda), Spitzbergen, Svalbard Island, Norway.
= Ichthyosauria gen sp indet MAZIN, 1981

Holotype: MNHN SVT 331 (old number A 35 a)

Locality: Mount Viking, Sassendalen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Island, Norway.

Horizon: Lowermost Grippia Niveau, Sticky Keep Formation, Sassendalen Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Spathien Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: Fragment of skull and fragment of sclerotic ring, part of the snout of a large individual