Also known as Morenosaurus type locality

Where: Fresno County, California (36.7° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 96.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moreno Formation (Great Valley Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr Chester Stock in 1943

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: S. P. Welles. 1943. Elasmosaurid plesiosaurs with description of new material from California and Colorado. Memoirs of the University of California 13:125-254 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116613: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.09.2011

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