†Aphrosaurus furlongi 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 Aphrosaurus according to J. P. O'Gorman 2019
See also Welles 1943 and Welles 1962
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: LACM 2748, a partial skeleton (postcranial skeleton). Its type locality is LACM CIT locality 316, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale in the Moreno Formation of California.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at LACM CIT locality 316
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