# Seriola prisca
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{{Short description|Species of fish}}
{{Speciesbox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|50|49|[Early Eocene](/source/Early_Eocene)}}
| image = Photo Natural History Museum of Verona. Fossil of a specimen of "Seriola prisca," a deep-sea fish found at Monte Purga near Bolca 1964 - Touring Club Italiano 07 0524.jpg
| image_caption = Fossil specimen, [Natural History Museum of Verona](/source/Natural_History_Museum_of_Verona)
| extinct = yes
| taxon = Seriola prisca
| authority = ([Agassiz](/source/Louis_Agassiz), 1834)
| synonyms = * {{extinct}}''[Lichia](/source/Lichia) prisca'' Agassiz, 1834
* {{extinct}}''[Carangopsis](/source/Carangopsis) analis'' Agassiz, 1844
* {{extinct}}''Seriola lata'' [Heckel](/source/Johann_Jakob_Heckel), 1854
}}
'''''Seriola prisca''''' (''prisca'' being Latin for "ancient") is an [extinct](/source/Extinction) [species](/source/species) of prehistoric marine [ray-finned fish](/source/Actinopterygii) from the [Eocene](/source/Eocene). Complete fossil specimens are known from the famous [Early Eocene](/source/Ypresian)-aged [Monte Bolca](/source/Monte_Bolca) site of Italy.[{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=440710 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=paleobiodb.org}}][{{Cite journal |last1=Carnevale |first1=G. |last2=Bannikov |first2=Alexandre F. |last3=Marramà |first3=G. |last4=Tyler |first4=James C. |last5=Zorzin. |first5=R. |date=2014 |title=The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide |url=https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale%20et%20al%202014%20The%20Pesciara%20F-L.%20Fishes%20and%20other%20vertebrates2.pdf |journal=Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=i–xxvii |hdl=10088/25678}}]
left|thumb|Specimen of a juvenile ''S. prisca''
It was a close relative of modern [amberjack](/source/amberjack)s, belonging to the same genus as them (''[Seriola](/source/Seriola)''), and is one of the oldest known members of the genus. Due to its age and it belonging to an extant genus, it has often been used to provide a minimum age constraint for divergence of the [carangid](/source/Carangidae) radiation.[{{Cite journal |last=Santini |first=Francesco |last2=Carnevale |first2=Giorgio |date=2015-02-01 |title=First multilocus and densely sampled timetree of trevallies, pompanos and allies (Carangoidei, Percomorpha) suggests a Cretaceous origin and Eocene radiation of a major clade of piscivores |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790314003789 |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=83 |pages=33–39 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.018 |issn=1055-7903|url-access=subscription }}][{{Cite journal |last=Halasan |first=Lorenzo C. |last2=Lin |first2=Hsiu-Chin |date=2024-09-01 |title=Diagnostic applicability of mitogenomics in uncovering intraspecific carangid diversifications: insights into phylogeny, divergence time, and characterization of two cryptic Selaroides leptolepis mitogenomes |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-024-00648-9 |journal=Organisms Diversity & Evolution |language=en |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=417–434 |doi=10.1007/s13127-024-00648-9 |issn=1618-1077|url-access=subscription }}] It closely resembles and may be related to the extinct species ''[S. natgeosoc](/source/Seriola_natgeosoc)'' from the [Bartonian](/source/Bartonian) of [North Caucasus](/source/North_Caucasus), Russia.[{{Cite journal |last=Bannikov |first=A. F. |date=2002 |title=New Carangid Fishes of the Genus Seriola (Carangidae, Seriolinae) from the Middle Eocene of the Northern Caucasus |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Bannikov/publication/266781727_New_carangid_fishes_of_the_genus_Seriola_Carangidae_Seriolinae_from_the_Middle_Eocene_of_the_Northern_Caucasus/links/546082290cf27487b450ceaf/New-carangid-fishes-of-the-genus-Seriola-Carangidae-Seriolinae-from-the-Middle-Eocene-of-the-Northern-Caucasus.pdf |journal=Journal of Ichthyology |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=1-6}}]
It was first erroneously identified in 1796 by [Giovanni Serafino Volta](/source/Giovanni_Serafino_Volta) as a fossil specimen of the extant "''[Scomber pelagicus](/source/Scomber_pelagicus)''" (now synonymized with the modern [mahi-mahi](/source/mahi-mahi)). In 1834, it was described by [Louis Agassiz](/source/Louis_Agassiz) as ''Lichia prisca'', who considered it an extinct relative of the modern [leerfish](/source/leerfish). It was moved to ''Seriola'' by [Johann Jakob Heckel](/source/Johann_Jakob_Heckel) in 1854.[{{Cite book |last=Geology |first=British Museum (Natural History) Department of |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_the_Fossil_Fishes_in_the_Br/ZtEKAQAAIAAJ? |title=Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini |last2=Woodward |first2=Arthur Smith |date=1901 |publisher=order of the Trustees |language=en}}]
It could reach a length of {{Convert|0.4|m|ft}}.