Fresnosaurus
Sign in to saveFresnosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) of what is now California. The type species is Fresnosaurus drescheri, first described by Welles in 1943. The generic name Fresnosaurus honors Fresno County, while the specific name honors Arthur Drescher.
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It sits within the topics Elasmosauridae, Fossil taxa described in 1943 and Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs of North America.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Elasmosauridae
- Named after
- Fresno County
- Image
- Fresnosaurus drescheri profile reconstruction.jpg
- Length
- 9
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- start time
- 70000000-0
- end time
- 66000000-0
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- Fresnosaurus
- taxon name
- Fresnosaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
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Fresnosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) of what is now California. The type species is Fresnosaurus drescheri, first described by Welles in 1943. The generic name Fresnosaurus honors Fresno County, while the specific name honors Arthur Drescher.
Fresnosaurus was probably at least 9 meters (30 feet) in length. Like all elasmosaurid plesiosaurs, it probably ate small bony fish, belemnites, and ammonites.
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