Osteichthyes - Aulopiformes - Ichthyotringidae
Alternative combination: Rhinellus delicatus
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 Ichthyotringa according to P. C. Goody 1969
See also Hay 1903
Sister taxa: Ichthyotringa africana, Ichthyotringa furcata, Ichthyotringa pindica, Ichthyotringa tenuirostris, Rhinellus nasalis, Rhinellus damoni, Rhinellus ferox, Rhinellus curtirostris, Rhinellus robustus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Hadjoula (Day collection, AMNH), which is in a Cenomanian carbonate limestone in Lebanon
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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