Enchelyolepis Woodward 1918 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Macrosemiiformes - Macrosemiidae

Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1918. The Fossil Fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part II. Pages 49–104, Plates XI—XX. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 70(336):49-104

Parent taxon: Macrosemiidae according to A. W. H. Bartram 1977

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Agoultichthys, Eosemionotus, Histionotus, Legnonotus, Macrosemiocotzus, Macrosemius, Notagogus, Propterus

Subtaxa: Enchelyolepis andrewsi

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Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Teffont, Wiltshire (BMNH fish Coll.) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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