†family Encheliidae Hay 1903 (eel)
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
Type: Enchelion
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hakel (Day collection, AMNH) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)