Genus: Nichollssaura DRUCKENMILLER & RUSSELL, 2009
Etymology: In memory of Elizabet ("Betsy") Nicholls, curator of marine
reptiles at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, for her lifelong work
on marine vertebrates from western North America (gender; feminine).
= Nichollsia DRUCKENMILLER & RUSSELL, 2008 non CHOPRA & TIWARI,
1950
= Genus Nova DRUCKENMILLER & RUSSELL, 2004
Species: borealis (DRUCKENMILLER & RUSSELL, 2008) DRUCKENMILLER & RUSSELL,
2009
Etymology: Latin, boreal, 'north'; in reference to its occurrence in the Early
Cretaceous Boreal Sea of the Western Interior Basin, adn its northerly distribution.
= Nichollsia borealis DRUCKENMILLER & RUSSELL,
2008
Holotype: RMTP 94.122.01
Locality: Approximately 35 kilometers north of Fort McMurry, open pit mining by Syncrude Canada, Ltd. in the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit, west side of the Base Mine, 57°0'24.02"N, 111°39'22.19"W, Wood Buffalo Regional Municipality, northeastern Alberta Province, Canada.
Horizon: Wabiskaw Member, Clearwater Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lowermost Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: Skull and skeleton.
Note: Approximately 120 gastroliths.