Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

Full reference: J. D. Davis. 1887. The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series II 3:457-634

Parent taxon: Pycnodontidae according to A. S. Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: Abdobalistum, Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coccodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Neoproscinetes, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Omphalodus, Polypsephis, Proscincetes, Proscinetes, Pycnodontinae, Pycnodus, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Sphaerodus, Stemmatodus, Typodus

Subtaxa: Xenopholis carinatus

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Type: Xenopholis carinatus

Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hakel (Tristram collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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