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Genus Seriphus Ayres 1860 
t Seriphus lavenbergi Huddleston and Takeuchi 2006:34-38, figs. 3, 4 
Figure 84 
Type Specimen : f Seriphus lavenbergi Huddleston and Takeuchi 2006, holotype, LACM 55484, incomplete 
disarticulated skull with right saccular otolith in situ. 
None. 
Type Locality : LACM locality 6907, City of Industry, Yorba Member of the Puente Formation, Late Miocene, 
Los Angeles County. 
Figure 84. f Seriphus lavenbergi Huddleston and Tackeuchi 2006 holotype, LACM 55484, [(from image provided by Gary 
Takeuchi (LACM)]; scale bar equals 2 cm. 
Seriphus politus Ayres 1860 
Selected References (fossils only) 
Seriphus politus Ayres 1860: Fitch 1967:13,19-21. 
Seriphus politus Ayres: Fitch and Reimer 1967:79,84-86, fig. 8, table 1. 
Seriphus politus Ayres: Fitch 1968:14. 
Seriphus politus Ayres: Zinsmeister 1970:124, table 1. 
Seriphus politus Ayres: Nolf 1985:89. 
Type Specimen : Extant, Seriphus politus Ayres 1860, no types known (Eschmeyer 1998:1360). 
Type Locality : San Francisco Bay, California. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch (1967:13. 19-2 lk On page 13, he makes the general statement that otoliths of 
S. politus have been found in many southern California Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits. On pages 19- 
21, he discussed the similarities and differences in the fish faunas between Pleistocene localities (LACMIP 
