''Etringus'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine

herring Herring are various species of forage fish, belonging to the Order (biology), order Clupeiformes. Herring often move in large Shoaling and schooling, schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate wate ...

that lived during the

Upper Miocene The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch, which lasted from 11.63 Ma (million years ago) to 5.333 Ma. The ...

subepoch. It contains a single species, ''E. scintillans'', known from the Modelo and Puente Formations of the

Los Angeles Basin The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary Structural basin, basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an wikt:anomalous, anomalous group of east–west trending chains of mountai ...

in California, US. It is known from both articulated skeletons and isolated scales.

References

† Miocene fish of North America {{clupeiformes-stub Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Fossils of California Miocene genera Fossil taxa described in 1907 Taxa named by David Starr Jordan