†Fresnosaurus drescheri Welles 1943 (elasmosaur)
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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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