Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Full reference: W. L. Holloway, K. M. Claeson, H. M. Sallam, S. El-Sayed, M. Kora, J. J. W. Sertich, and P. M. O'Connor. 2017. A new species of the neopterygian fish Enchodus from the Duwi Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous, Western Desert, central Egypt. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):603-611
Belongs to Enchodus according to W. L. Holloway et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Cybium (Enchodus) bleekeri, Enchodus (Isodus), Enchodus amicrodus, Enchodus anceps, Enchodus brevis, Enchodus calliodon, Enchodus carinatus, Enchodus dirus, Enchodus dolichus, Enchodus elegans, Enchodus faujasi, Enchodus ferox, Enchodus gentryi, Enchodus gladiolus, Enchodus gracilis, Enchodus lamberti, Enchodus lemonnieri, Enchodus lewesiensis, Enchodus longidens, Enchodus longipectoralis, Enchodus major, Enchodus marchesettii, Enchodus mecoanalis, Enchodus oliveirai, Enchodus oxytomus, Enchodus parvus, Enchodus petrosus, Enchodus pressidens, Enchodus recurvus, Enchodus saevus, Enchodus semistriatus, Enchodus shumardi, Enchodus subaequilateralis, Enchodus tetraecus, Enchodus venator, Enchodus zipapanensis, Ischyrocephalus cataphractus, Ischyrocephalus intermedius, Ischyrocephalus macropterus, Ischyrocephalus gracilis, Tetheodus pephredo
Type specimen: MUVP 59, a partial skull. Its type locality is Tineida, which is in a Campanian marine mudstone in the Duwi Formation of Egypt.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Tineida
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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