Bolbocara

Bolbocara; Temporal range: Upper Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Type specimen of B. gyrinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gadiformes
Family:	Bathygadidae
Genus:	†Bolbocara; Jordan, 1927
Species:	†B. gyrinus
Binomial name
	†Bolbocara gyrinus; Jordan, 1927

Bolbocara is an extinct genus of rattail that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch of Southern California. It contains a single species, B. gyrinus.^[1]^[2]^[3] It may be related to the extant genus Bathygadus.^[4]

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It is known from the Monterey Formation near Lompoc.^[2]

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