''Bolbocara'' is an extinct genus of

rattail Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the subfamily Macrourinae, the largest subfamily of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this subfamily are amo ...

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 of

Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal reg ...

. It contains a single species, ''B. gyrinus''. It may be related to the extant genus ''

Bathygadus ''Bathygadus'' is a genus of rattails of the family (biology), family Bathygadidae. Species There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus: * ''Bathygadus antrodes'' (David Starr Jordan, Jordan & Edwin Chapin Starks, Starks, 1904) * ''B ...

''.

It is known from the

Monterey Formation The Monterey Formation is an extensive Miocene oil-rich geology, geological sedimentary formation in California, with outcrops of the formation in parts of the California Coast Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and on some of California's off-shor ...

near

Lompoc Lompoc ( ; Chumashan ) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast, its population was 43,834 as of July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who called t ...

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Macrouridae Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Miocene fish of North America Tortonian genera Fossils of California Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Fossil taxa described in 1927 {{gadiformes-stub

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