Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Full reference: C. Arambourg and L. Joleaud. 1943. Vertébrés fossiles du bassin du Niger [Fossil vertebrates of the Niger basin]. Bulletin de la Service des Mines de l'Afrique Occidentale Française 7:28-85
Belongs to Enchodus according to H. Cappetta 1972
See also Arambourg and Joleaud 1943 and Tabaste 1963
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 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 tineidae, Enchodus venator, Enchodus zipapanensis, Tetheodus pephredo, Ischyrocephalus intermedius, Ischyrocephalus gracilis, Ischyrocephalus cataphractus, Ischyrocephalus macropterus
Type specimen: Lambert AD 072, 078, 068, 054, 163; Chevalier coll., a set of teeth
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Niger (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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