Thyrsocles escharion Jordan and Gilbert 1920 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Euzaphlegidae

Full reference: D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1920. Fossil Fishes of Diatom Beds of Lompoc, California. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications University Series

Belongs to Thyrsocles according to D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert 1920

Sister taxa: Thyrsocles kriegeri, Thyrsion velox

Type specimen: Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 280, a skeleton. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Lompoc Quarry

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