Fresnosaurus drescheri Welles 1943 (elasmosaur)

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae

Full 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

Belongs to Fresnosaurus according to J. P. O'Gorman 2016

See also Welles 1949 and Welles 1962

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CIT 2758, a set of postcrania (coracoids, humerus, pelvis, femora, and disarticulated paddle bones). Its type locality is LACM (CIT) 346, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Moreno Formation of California.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at LACM (CIT) 346

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