Osteichthyes - Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1942. Some new and little-known Upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 9:537-568
Belongs to Hoplopteryx according to C. Patterson 1964
See also Woodward 1942
Sister taxa: Hoplopteryx antiquus, Hoplopteryx dakotaensis, Hoplopteryx gephyrognathus, Hoplopteryx gibbus, Hoplopteryx insculptus, Hoplopteryx lewesiensis, Hoplopteryx lewisi, Hoplopteryx macracanthus, Hoplopteryx oblongus, Hoplopteryx simus, Hoplopteryx stachei, Hoplopteryx syriacus
Type specimen: AUB 102056, a skeleton. Its type locality is Sahel Alma (AUB collection), which is in a Santonian carbonate lime mudstone in Lebanon.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sahel Alma (AUB collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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