Palimphyes is an extinct genus of prehistoric euzaphlegid bony fish related to the escolars and snake mackerels. The various species lived as deepwater mesopelagic predators in the Tethys and Paratethys oceans, with fossils of ten species found in Paleocene to Oligocene strata of the Swiss Alps, the Carpathian and Caucasus Mountains, Iran, India, and Turkmenistan. See also Prehistoric fish List of prehistoric bony fish References Euzaphlegidae Paleocene fish Eocene fish Oligocene fish Oligocene genus extinctions Fossils of Iran Fossils of India Thanetian genus first appearances