Osteichthyes - Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae
Alternative combination: Pycnosterinx lewisii
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
Belongs to Hoplopteryx according to C. Patterson 1964
See also Davis 1887
Sister taxa: Hoplopteryx antiquus, Hoplopteryx dakotaensis, Hoplopteryx gephyrognathus, Hoplopteryx gibbus, Hoplopteryx insculptus, Hoplopteryx lewesiensis, Hoplopteryx macracanthus, Hoplopteryx oblongus, Hoplopteryx simus, Hoplopteryx spinulosus, Hoplopteryx stachei, Hoplopteryx syriacus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hakel (Lewis collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)
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