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Enchodontidae
Taxonomy
Enchodontidae was named by Woodward (1901).
It was assigned to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Teleostei by Arambourg and Joleaud (1943); to Isospondyli by Hay (1902), Woodward (1902) and Rapp (1946); to Salmoniformes by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Myctophoidei by Applegate (1970) and Kumar and Loyal (1987); to Osteichthyes by Martin and Crame (2006); to Aulopiformes by Fielitz and González-Rodríguez (2010) and Nelson et al. (2016); to Enchodontoidei by Jordan (1963), Goody (1969), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Forey et al. (2003), Shimada et al. (2006), Bogan and Agnolin (2010) and Holloway et al. (2017); to Ichthyotringoidei by Amalfitano et al. (2020); and to Alepisauroidea by Ebersole et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Teleostei by Arambourg and Joleaud (1943); to Isospondyli by Hay (1902), Woodward (1902) and Rapp (1946); to Salmoniformes by Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Myctophoidei by Applegate (1970) and Kumar and Loyal (1987); to Osteichthyes by Martin and Crame (2006); to Aulopiformes by Fielitz and González-Rodríguez (2010) and Nelson et al. (2016); to Enchodontoidei by Jordan (1963), Goody (1969), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Forey et al. (2003), Shimada et al. (2006), Bogan and Agnolin (2010) and Holloway et al. (2017); to Ichthyotringoidei by Amalfitano et al. (2020); and to Alepisauroidea by Ebersole et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1901 | Enchodontidae Woodward |
| 1902 | Enchodontidae Hay p. 388 |
| 1902 | Enchodontidae Woodward p. 36 |
| 1943 | Enchodontidae Arambourg and Joleaud p. 48 |
| 1946 | Enchodontidae Rapp p. 512 |
| 1963 | Enchodontidae Jordan p. 626 |
| 1969 | Enchodontidae Goody p. 71 |
| 1970 | Enchodontidae Applegate p. 420 |
| 1981 | Enchodontidae Thurmond and Jones p. 99 |
| 1987 | Enchodontidae Kumar and Loyal p. 75 |
| 1988 | Enchodontidae Case and Schwimmer p. 299 |
| 2003 | Enchodontidae Forey et al. p. 229 |
| 2006 | Enchodontidae Martin and Crame p. 113 |
| 2006 | Enchodontidae Shimada et al. p. 26 |
| 2010 | Enchodontidae Bogan and Agnolin |
| 2010 | Enchodontidae Fielitz and González-Rodríguez |
| 2016 | Enchodontidae Nelson et al. p. 275 |
| 2017 | Enchodontidae Holloway et al. p. 605 |
| 2020 | Enchodontidae Amalfitano et al. p. 293 |
| 2022 | Enchodontidae Ebersole et al. p. 391 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Enchodontidae Woodward 1901
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G. †Enchodus Agassiz 1835
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†Cybium (Enchodus) bleekeri Storms 1892
†Enchodus amicrodus Stewart 1898
†Enchodus anceps Cope 1872
†Enchodus brevis Chalifa 1989
†Enchodus calliodon Cope 1872
†Enchodus carinatus Cope 1869
†Enchodus dirus Leidy 1857
†Enchodus dolichus Cope 1875
†Enchodus elegans Dartevelle and Casier 1949
†Enchodus faujasi Agassiz 1843
†Enchodus ferox Leidy 1855
†Enchodus gentryi Cope 1875
†Enchodus gladiolus Cope 1872
†Enchodus gracilis der Marck 1858
†Enchodus lamberti Arambourg and Joleaud 1943
†Enchodus lemonnieri Dello 1893
†Enchodus lewesiensis Mantell 1822
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Invalid names: Enchodus annectens Woodward 1901 [synonym], Enchodus halocyon Agassiz 1835 [synonym]
†Enchodus longidens Pictet 1850
†Enchodus longipectoralis Schaeffer 1947
†Enchodus major Davis 1887
†Enchodus marchesettii Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895
†Enchodus mecoanalis Forey et al. 2003
†Enchodus oliveirai Maury 1930
†Enchodus oxytomus Cope 1875
†Enchodus parvus Stewart 1898
†Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874
†Enchodus pressidens Cope 1889
†Enchodus recurvus Davis 1887
†Enchodus saevus Hay 1903
†Enchodus semistriatus Marsh 1869
†Enchodus shumardi Leidy 1856
†Enchodus subaequilateralis Cope 1885
†Enchodus tetraecus Cope 1875
†Enchodus tineidae Holloway et al. 2017
†Enchodus venator Arambourg 1954
†Enchodus zipapanensis Fielitz and González-Rodríguez 2010
Invalid names: Ischyrocephalus von der Marck 1858 [synonym], Tetheodus Cope 1874 [synonym]
Subfm. †Eurypholinae Fielitz 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Burdigalian or 122.46000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (221 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian | Mexico (Chiapas) | Enchodontidae indet. (68835) | |
| Aptian - Albian | Equatorial Guinea | Enchodus sp. (129869) | |
| Late/Upper Aptian | USA (Texas) | Enchodus sp. (14408) | |
| Albian | USA (Texas) | Enchodus sp. (27613) | |
| Albian - Cenomanian | Mexico (Hidalgo) | Enchodus zipapanensis (135815) | |
| Late/Upper Albian | Brazil | Enchodus longipectoralis (195791) | |
| Cenomanian | Venezuela (Trujillo) | Enchodontidae indet. (176561) | |
| Cenomanian | Brazil (Maranhão) | Enchodontidae indet. (67225) | |
| Cenomanian | Libya (Awbari) | Enchodontidae indet. (45725) | |
| Cenomanian | USA (Arkansas) | Enchodus petrosus (223862) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Argentina (Río Negro) | Enchodus sp., Enchodus gladiolus, Enchodus ferox (231889) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Early/Lower Paleocene | USA (New Jersey) | Enchodus serrulatus, Enchodus ferox (26819) | |
| Danian | Bolivia (Mizque) | Enchodus oliveirai (13501) | |
| Thanetian | USA (New Jersey) | Enchodus sp., Enchodus ferox (3113) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene | Saudi Arabia | Enchodus sp. (37182) | |
| Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene | India | Enchodus sp. (91316) | |
| Ypresian | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Enchodontidae indet. (31267) | |
| Middle Eocene | Uzbekistan | Enchodontidae indet. (45701 45702) | |
| Bartonian | Spain | Enchodus sp. (141924) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (New Jersey) | Phasganodus gentryi (18587) | |