LACM CIT locality 316 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Panoche Hills

Where: Fresno County, California (36.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 99 + 4.4 m= 103.6 m or 99 + 38.1 m= 137.1 m below the Marca Shale Member of the Moreno Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. T. White; reposited in the CIT, LACM, UCMP

Primary reference: C. Stock. 1939. Occurrence of Cretaceous reptiles in the Moreno Shale of the southern coast ranges, California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 25(12):617-620 [M. Carrano/A. Murch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76734: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Aphrosaurus furlongi n. gen. n. sp.
Aphrosaurus furlongi n. gen. n. sp. Welles 1943 elasmosaur