Actinopteri - Anguilliformes - Encheliidae

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1903. On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 19:395-452

Parent taxon: Congroidei according to D. S. Jordan 1963

Sister taxa: Cyemidae, Derichthyidae, Dysommidae, Neenchelyidae, Nettastomatidae, Nettastomidae, Sauromuraenesocidae, Xenocongridae

Subtaxa: Enchelion

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Type: Enchelion

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hakel (Day collection, AMNH) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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