Lompoquia

Lompoquia
Temporal range: Upper Miocene[1]
artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes[2]
Family: Sciaenidae
Subfamily: Sciaeninae
Genus: Lompoquia
Species: L. retropes
Binomial name
Lompoquia retropes
Jordan and Gilbert, 1919

Lompoquia retropes is an extinct marine drumfish that lived what is now Southern California during the Upper Miocene subepoch.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. Perciformes - Paleobiology Database
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