Enchelion montium 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

Belongs to Enchelion according to O. P. Hay 1903

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hakel (Day collection, AMNH), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal carbonate in Lebanon

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hakel (Day collection, AMNH)

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