Palimphyes
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.
Taxonomy
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:
- P. chadumicus Daniltshenko, 1960 - early Oligocene of the North Caucasus, Russia
- P. elongatus - Rupelian of Canton Glarus, Switzerland
- P. lanceolatus - Rupelian of Romania
- P. leptosomus - Middle/Late Eocene of Iran
- P. misrai Sahni & Choudhary, 1972 - early Eocene of Rajasthan, India
- ?P. nematophorus - ?Priabonian of Iran
- P. originis - Rupelian of Romania
- P. palaeocenicus Daniltshenko, 1968 - earliest Eocene of Turkmenistan
- P. pinnatus Daniltshenko, 1962 - middle Eocene of Georgia
- P. pshekhaensis Bannikov, 1993 - middle Eocene of Krasnodar Krai, Russia
- P. stolyarovi Bratishko & Udovychenko, 2013 - Rupelian of Kazakhstan & Crimea