Euzaphleges
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | †Euzaphlegidae |
| Genus: | †Euzaphleges White & Moy-Thomas, 1941 |
| Species: | †E. longurio
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| †Euzaphleges longurio (Jordan & Gilbert, 1921)
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Euzaphleges is an extinct genus of superficially mackerel-like fish related to the escolar and snake mackerels. It contains a single species, E. longurio, and was found off the coast of what is now California during the late Miocene. Fossils are known from the presumably Tortonian-aged diatomite deposits of the Monterey Formation.[2][3]
It was a member of the Euzaphlegidae, a now-extinct family of scombroid fish.[4] It could reach about 25.5 inches (65 cm) in length, which was smaller than the very similar Thyrsocles and longer and more slender than Zaphlegulus, which also lived at the same time. It was much longer than the poorly known Trossulus.[3][5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ David, Lore Rose. January 10, 1943. Miocene Fishes of Southern California The Society p 102
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
- ^ a b California Academy of Sciences (1890). Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Danilʹchenko, P. G. 1967 Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus
- ^ David, Lore Rose. January 10, 1943. Miocene Fishes of Southern California The Society p 102-114
- ^ Jordan, David Starr (1921). The Fish Fauna of the California Tertiary. The University. ISBN 978-1-02-234654-3.
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