Actinopteri - Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae

Alternative combination: Beryx syriacus

Full reference: F. J. Pictet and A. Humbert. 1866. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles du Mont Liban 1-115

Belongs to Hoplopteryx according to C. Patterson 1964

See also Davis 1887 and Pictet and Humbert 1866

Sister taxa: Hoplopteryx antiquus, Hoplopteryx dakotaensis, Hoplopteryx gephyrognathus, Hoplopteryx gibbus, Hoplopteryx insculptus, Hoplopteryx lewesiensis, Hoplopteryx lewisi, Hoplopteryx macracanthus, Hoplopteryx oblongus, Hoplopteryx simus, Hoplopteryx spinulosus, Hoplopteryx stachei

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sahel Alma (Humbert collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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