Genus: Traskasaura O'KEEFE, ARMOUR SMITH, CLARK, OTERO, PERELLA & TRASK, 2025
Etymology: In honor of Michael and Heathr Trask, who discovered the holotype specimen along the banks of the Puntledge river in 1988, and Greek, sauros, "lizard."
Species: sandrae O'KEEFE, ARMOUR SMITH, CLARK, OTERO, PERELLA & TRASK, 2025
Etymology: In honor of Sandra Lee O'Keefe (nee Markey), Pacific Northwest native and, ,ike Elizabeth Nicholls, a valiant warrior in teh fight against breast cancer, in loving memory.
Holotype: CDM 002
Locality: Along the lower Puntledge River near the town of Courtenay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Province, Canada.
Note: Exat locality data on file at the Courtenay and District Museum for qualifed researchers.
Horizon: Haslam Formation, Nanaimo Group.
Biostratigraphy: Eubostrychoceras elongatum ammoind biozone.
Age: Santonian Stage, Lower Senonian Subepoch, Lower Gulf Epoch, Lower Late Cretaceous.
Material:Essentially complete skeleton, osteologically mature, poorly preserved.
Paratype:
CDM 161: Partial skeleton, osteologically immature, well preserved.
Referred material:
CDM 2006.8.1: Isolated right humerus.