Alisea

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|11.6|5.3|Upper Miocene<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | image = Alisea grandis.jpg | image_caption = Type specimen | parent_authority = Jordan and Gilbert, 1919 | taxon = Alisea grandis | authority = Jordan and Gilbert, 1919 }}

'''''Alisea''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine clupeiform fish that lived in what is now California during the Upper Miocene subepoch.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=354920 |access-date=2024-02-03 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> Although generally considered a relative of the herrings in the family Clupeidae, an affinity to shads has also been suggested due to its large size and well-developed abdominal scutes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Marramà |first1=Giuseppe |last2=Carnevale |first2=Giorgio |date=2018 |title=Eoalosa janvieri gen. et sp. nov., a new clupeid fish (Teleostei, Clupeiformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=92 |issue=1 |pages=107–120 |doi=10.1007/s12542-017-0378-0 |issn=0031-0220 |pmc=5830460 |pmid=29515269}}</ref> Its name derives from ''alise'', an alternate spelling for the Hindi name of the related ilish fish.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkx-hPen4MC |title=Fossil Fishes of Southern California |date=1919 |publisher=Stanford University |language=en}}</ref> left|thumb|Life restoration Due to the poorly preserved nature of the only specimen, it is uncertain whether it warrants recognition as a distinct taxon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=California Academy of Sciences |url=https://archive.org/details/occasionalpaper00calif/occasionalpaper00calif/page/16/mode/2up?q=Alisea |title=Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences |date=1890 |publisher=San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences |others=California Academy of Sciences}}</ref>

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Category:Clupeidae Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Miocene fish of North America Category:Fossils of California Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Fossil taxa described in 1919