Thyrsocles

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | 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 }}</ref>}} | image = Euzaphlegidae.JPG | taxon = Thyrsocles | authority = Jordan & Gilbert, 1920<ref>Danilʹchenko, P. G. 1967 '''Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus'''</ref> | synonyms = * {{extinct}}''Deprandus'' <small>Jordan & Gilbert, 1921</small> }}

'''''Thyrsocles''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>

The genus ''Deprandus'' from California, which was previously thought to be an extinct eel and the only member of the family Deprandidae, is now thought to be an incorrectly identified specimen of ''T. velox''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35356 |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stewart |first=J.D. |last2=Hunter |first2=Stephen B. |date=1997-09-04 |title=''DEPRANDUS LESTES'' JORDAN IS A SYNONYM OF ''THYRSOCLES VELOX'' (JORDAN) (TELEOSTEI: PERCIFORMES) AND IS NOT AN EEL |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.1997.10011028 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |language=en |volume=17 |issue=sup003 |pages=79A |doi=10.1080/02724634.1997.10011028 |issn=0272-4634|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Miocene fish of North America Category:Euzaphlegidae Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan