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Palimphyes
Temporal range: Earliest Ypresian to Rupelian
Fossil of Palimphyes at the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Euzaphlegidae
Subfamily: Dipterichthyinae
Arambourg, 1967
Genus: Palimphyes
Agassiz, 1835
Type species
Clupea elongata
Species

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Synonyms

Palimphyes is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Paleogene period. It was a euzaphlegid, an extinct family of scombroid fish related to the escolars and snake mackerels.[1]

Taxonomy

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Fossil of P. elongatus

The various species lived as deepwater mesopelagic predators throughout the Tethys and Paratethys oceans, with fossils of ten species found in earliest Eocene to Oligocene strata of the Swiss Alps, the Carpathian and Caucasus Mountains, Iran, India, and Turkmenistan.

The following species are known:[2][3]

Indeterminate species are also known from the early Oligocene-aged Menilite Formation of Poland and the Czech Republic.[6][11]

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