Thyrsion velox Jordan and Gilbert 1920

Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Euzaphlegidae

Alternative combination: Thyrsocles velox

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 Thyrsion according to D. S. Jordan 1925

See also Jordan and Gilbert 1920

Sister taxa: Thyrsocles escharion, Thyrsocles kriegeri

Type specimen: Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 153, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Lompoc Quarry, which is in a Tortonian basinal (siliciclastic) diatomite in the Monterey Formation of California.

Distribution: found only at Lompoc Quarry

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