Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Alternative combination: Leptotrachelus hakelensis
Full reference: F. J. Pictet and A. Humbert. 1866. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles du Mont Liban 1-115
Belongs to Rhynchodercetis according to M. Chida et al. 2023
See also Alvarado-Ortega and Díaz-Cruz 2021, Davis 1887, Goody 1969, Pictet and Humbert 1866 and Woodward 1901
Sister taxa: Rhynchodercetis gortanii, Rhynchodercetis yovanovitchi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Hakel (Humbert collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal carbonate in Lebanon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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