Urenchelys abditus Wiley and Stewart 1981 (eel)

Actinopteri - Anguilliformes

Full reference: E. O. Wiley and J. D. Stewart. 1981. Urenchelys abditus, new species, the first undoubted eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the Cretaceous of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):43-47

Belongs to Urenchelys according to E. O. Wiley and J. D. Stewart 1981

Sister taxa: Urenchelys anglicus, Urenchelys avus

Type specimen: KUVP 47241, a skeleton (part and counterpart of skeleton lacking caudal fin and some vertebrae). Its type locality is Hell's Bar, which is in a Santonian marine horizon in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hell's Bar

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