Lompoquia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|11.6|5.3|Upper Miocene<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>}} | image = Lompoquia_retropes.JPG | image_caption = Artist's reconstruction | taxon = Lompoquia | authority = Jordan & Gilbert, 1919 }}

'''''Lompoquia retropes''''' is an extinct genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums.<ref name = pbdb>{{cite web | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36076 | title = †Lompoquia Jordan and Gilbert 1919 (ray-finned fish) | access-date = 1 December 2022 | website = Paleobiology Database}}</ref> These fishes lived what is now Southern California<ref>{{cite book |last= David|first= Lore Rose|date= 1943|title= "Miocene Fishes of Southern California" |chapter= Miocene Fishes of Southern California|series= Geological Society of America Special Papers|volume= 43|url= https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/575/chapter/3803357/Miocene-Fishes-of-Southern-California |page= 29|publisher= Geological Society of America|doi= 10.1130/SPE43-pxiii|isbn= 978-0-8137-2043-2}}</ref> 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/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}</ref>

==Species== Two species are classified within this genus:<ref name = pbdb/> {{Linked species list | {{extinct}}Lompoquia culveri | Jordan 1925 | {{extinct}}Lompoquia retropes | Jordan and Gilbert 1919 }}

{{extinct}} means extinct

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Sciaenidae Category:Miocene fish Category:Miocene fish of North America Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert