Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae

Alternative combination: Sphyraena carinata

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part I. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:1-104

Belongs to Enchodus according to A. S. Woodward 1901

See also Cope 1869

Sister taxa: Cybium (Enchodus) bleekeri, Enchodus (Isodus), Enchodus amicrodus, Enchodus anceps, Enchodus brevis, Enchodus calliodon, Enchodus dirus, Enchodus dolichus, Enchodus elegans, Enchodus faujasi, Enchodus ferox, Enchodus gentryi, Enchodus gladiolus, Enchodus gracilis, Enchodus lamberti, Enchodus lemonnieri, Enchodus lewesiensis, Enchodus longidens, Enchodus longipectoralis, Enchodus major, Enchodus marchesettii, Enchodus mecoanalis, Enchodus oliveirai, Enchodus oxytomus, Enchodus parvus, Enchodus petrosus, Enchodus pressidens, Enchodus recurvus, Enchodus saevus, Enchodus semistriatus, Enchodus shumardi, Enchodus subaequilateralis, Enchodus tetraecus, Enchodus tineidae, Enchodus venator, Enchodus zipapanensis, Ischyrocephalus macropterus, Ischyrocephalus gracilis, Ischyrocephalus intermedius, Ischyrocephalus cataphractus, Tetheodus pephredo

Type specimen: Its type locality is Elasmosaurus type, McAllaster Butte, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine horizon in the Pierre Shale Formation of Kansas

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Elasmosaurus type, McAllaster Butte

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