Genus: Banksiops WARREN & MARSICANO, 2000
Etymology: In honor of Professor Max Banks, formerly of the Geology Department, University Tasmania, who described some of the Triassic material, and participated in much of the field work, and Greek, ops, "face."
= Blinasaurus COSGRIFF 1969 (partim)
Etymology:
= Banksia WARREN & MARSICANO, 1998 non VOIGTS & OUDERMANS, 1905 (Banksia clypeator, Arachnida, Xenillidae)
Etymology: In honor of Professor Max Banks, formerly of the Geology Department, University Tasmania, who described some of the Triassic material, and participated in much of the field work.

Species: townrowi (COSGRIFF 1974) WARREN & MARISCANO, 2000
Etymology:
= Blinasaurus townrowi COSGRIFF, 1974
= Banksia townrowi (COSGRIFF 1974) WARREN & MARSICANO, 1998

Holotype: UTGD 87785

Locality: Old Beach Locality, the fossil-bearing stratum is a clay-pebble conglomerate lens exposed in a road cut that roughly follows the east bank of the Derwent River from Ridson to Old Beach, 73200N and
51550E, Tasmania.

Horizon: Knocklofty Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Induan stage,-Olenekian stage, upper Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: A nearly complete skull.

Topotypes:

UTGD 87516: Fragmentary skull which includes most of the right lateral and preorbital portions.

UTGD 87515: Skull fragments.

UTGD 857513, UTGD 87514, UTGD 87523: Lower jaw fragments.

Paratypes:

Locality: Midway Point Locality, the locality lies on the shore platform of the western coast of the Midway Point peninsula, which projects into Pitt Water from the north, 73070N and 53630E, Tasmania.

Horizon: Knocklofty Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Induan stage,-Olenekian stage, upper Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material:

UTGD 8771: Fragmentary skull.

UTGD 85708, 85708, 85710, 85741, 85749, 85757, 87772, 87773, 8774, 87775, 87776, 87807: Fragments of skulls.

UTGD 85700, 85701, 85702, 85750, 85766, 85784, 85785, 87805, 87806, MUZD 1962, MUZD 2094: Lower jaw fragments.


Paratype: MUZD 1925

Locality: Conningham Locality, the fossiliferous area is a 100-m-long stretch of low sea cliffs, on the south coast of Northwest Bay about 0.8 km west of the coastal community of Conningham, 69690N and 51460E, Tasmania.

Horizon: Knocklofty Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Induan stage,-Olenekian stage, upper Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: Skull fragment.

Paratype: UTGD 89381

Locality: Crips and Gunn Quarry, Upper Level, brick-clay quarry northeast flank of Mount Knocklofty, 72066N, and 51650E, Tasmania.

Horizon: Knocklofty Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Induan stage,-Olenekian stage, upper Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: Fragmentary lower jaw ramus.

Paratypes:

Locality: Limbe Bay Locality, on a beach platform of Lime Bay, a semicircular indentation on the northern coast of the Limbe Bay Peninsula, Tasmania.

Horizon: Knocklofty Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Induan stage,-Olenekian stage, upper Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material:

UTGD 87468, 87469, 87470, 87471, 87472, 87473, 87474, 87475: Fragmentary skulls.

UTGD 87476, 87477, 87478, 87489: Fragmentary lower jaws.

UTGD 87484, 87485: Incomplete articulated clavicles and interclavicles.

UTGD 87486, 87487, 87488, 87489, 87490, 87491, 87496: Fragmentary clavicles.

UTGD 87492, 87493, 87494, 87495, 87497, 87498, 87499, 87500: Fragmentary interclavicles.

UTGD 87511, 87779: Fragmentary atlases.

UTGD 87501, 87502, 87503, 87504, 87505, 87506, 87507, 87508: Intercentra.

UTGD 87481, 87482, 87483: Rib fragments.

UTGD 87509, 87510: Fragmentary ilia.

UTGD 87780: Left femur.