LACM (CIT) 346 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Panoche Hills, Fresno County

Where: Fresno County, California (36.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 96.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• LACM 2758, coracoids, humerus, pelvic girdle, femora and disarticulated paddle elements. O´Gorman (2016) add additional material: postcranial skeleton consisting of vertebral centra (one pectoral, eighteen dorsals, three to four sacrals and one caudal (all from the same specimen).

Reposited in the LACM, UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. Workman Ford. 2006. Stratigraphic positions of marine reptile and dinosaur specimens in the Moreno Formation, in the Tumey Hills and Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:407-410 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76733: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Fresnosaurus drescheri n. gen. n. sp.
Fresnosaurus drescheri n. gen. n. sp. Welles 1943 elasmosaur
CIT 2758 (holotype), coracoids, humerus, pelvic girdle, femora and disarticulated paddle elements