Seriola sanctaebarbarae

{{Short description|Extinct species of fish}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|11.6|7.2|Late Miocene}}

| image = Seriola sanctae barbarae.JPG

| image_caption = Life restoration of S. sanctaebarbarae with Drimys

| extinct = yes

| taxon = Seriola sanctaebarbarae

| authority = Jordan, 1921

| synonyms = * S. sanctae-barbarae (alternate spelling)

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Seriola sanctaebarbarae (named after the city of Santa Barbara) is an extinct species of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Miocene of California, USA. It is known from the presumably Tortonian-aged diatomite deposits of the Monterey Formation near Lompoc.{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=352830 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=paleobiodb.org}}{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Fish_Fauna_of_the_California_Tertiar/SmBAAQAAIAAJ? |title=The Fish Fauna of the California Tertiary |date=1921 |publisher=The University |isbn=978-1-02-234654-3 |language=en}}

It was a close relative of modern amberjacks, belonging to the same genus as them (Seriola). Its morphology differs from that of the modern California yellowtail (S. dorsalis) that now occupies the California coast, and resembles that of the older species S. prisca from the Early Eocene of Italy and S. natgeosoc from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of North Caucasus, Russia.{{Cite journal |last=Bannikov |first=A. F. |date=2002 |title=New Carangid Fishes of the Genus Seriola (Carangidae, Seriolinae) from the Middle Eocene of the Northern Caucasus |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Bannikov/publication/266781727_New_carangid_fishes_of_the_genus_Seriola_Carangidae_Seriolinae_from_the_Middle_Eocene_of_the_Northern_Caucasus/links/546082290cf27487b450ceaf/New-carangid-fishes-of-the-genus-Seriola-Carangidae-Seriolinae-from-the-Middle-Eocene-of-the-Northern-Caucasus.pdf |journal=Journal of Ichthyology |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=1–6}} The species Hemicaranx archaeus, also found in the same formation, appears to be synonymous with it.{{Cite book |last=California Academy of Sciences |url=https://archive.org/details/occasionalpaper00calif/occasionalpaper00calif/ |title=Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences |date=1890 |publisher=San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences |others=California Academy of Sciences}}

It was a large species that could grow up to {{Convert|27.5|in|cm}}.