Seriola prisca

Complete fossil specimens are known from the famous Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy.

[3][4] It closely resembles and may be related to the extinct species S. natgeosoc from the Bartonian of North Caucasus, Russia.

[5] It was first erroneously identified in 1796 by Giovanni Serafino Volta as a fossil specimen of the extant "Scomber pelagicus" (now synonymized with the modern mahi-mahi).

In 1834, it was described by Louis Agassiz as Lichia prisca, who considered it an extinct relative of the modern leerfish.

It was moved to Seriola by Johann Jakob Heckel in 1854.

Specimen of a juvenile S. prisca