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
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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
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