LACM CIT locality 316: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, California
collected by R. T. White
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Aphrosaurus furlongi n. gen., n. sp.
Welles 1943
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Workman Ford 2006 | |||||||||
| LACM 2748 (holotype) posterior cervicals, pectorals, and incomplete dorsal region, one caudal vertebra, dorsal and caudal ribs, clavicle-interclavicle, both scapulae, both coracoids, pubis, ischium, ilium, almost complete fore- and hind limbs, and gastroliths | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | California | County: | Fresno |
| Coordinates: | 36.5° North, 120.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.4° North, 96.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Great Valley | Formation: | Moreno | Member: | Tierra Loma Shale |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 99 + 4.4 m= 103.6 m or 99 + 38.1 m= 137.1 m below the Marca Shale Member of the Moreno Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | CIT,LACM,UCMP |
| Collectors: | R. T. White |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Panoche Hills | ||
| Database number: | 76734 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-30 07:36:31 | Last modified: | 2022-08-19 08:35:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-30 07:36:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52135. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 82418 | J. P. O'Gorman. 2019. Elasmosaurid phylogeny and paleobiogeography, with a reappraisal of Aphrosaurus furlongi from the Maastrichtian of the Moreno Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(5):e1692025:1-24 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte] | |
| 25965 | ETE | 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] |