Veridagon Díaz-Cruz et al. 2019 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae

Synonym: Dagon Díaz-Cruz et al. 2019 [replaced name]

Full reference: J. A. Díaz-Cruz, J. Alvarado-Ortega, and G. Carbot-Chanona. 2019. Corrigendum to “Dagon avendanoi gen. and sp. nov., an Early Cenomanian Enchodontidae (Aulopiformes) fish from the El Chango quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico” [J. South Am. Earth Sci. 91 (2019) 272–284]. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 95(78):102314

Parent taxon: Enchodontidae according to J. A. Díaz-Cruz et al. 2019

See also Díaz-Cruz et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Calypsoichthys, Enchodus, Eurypholinae, Leptecodon, Palaeolycus, Pantopholis, Parenchodus, Rharbichthys, Unicachichthys

Subtaxa: Veridagon avendanoi

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Type: Dagon avendanoi

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at El Chango Quarry (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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