Lophar

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|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=363 |pages=1–560 |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>}} | image = Lophar miocaenius.jpg | image_caption = Artist's reconstruction | taxon = Lophar miocaenus | authority = Jordan and Gilbert }}

'''''Lophar miocaenus''''' is an extinct bony fish<ref name=StarJordan>{{cite journal|last=Jordan|first=David Starr|title=The fish fauna of the California Tertiary |journal=Stanford University Series: Biological Sciences|year=1920–1921|volume=1|page=233}}</ref> almost identical in form to the living bluefish, ''Pomatomus saltatrix'', differing in its dentition, which consisted of "thick, conical subequal teeth" instead of the sharp, slender teeth and canines seen in bluefish. ''L. miocaenus'' lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch of Southern California.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

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