Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Alternative combination: Eurypholis major
Full reference: J. D. Davis. 1887. The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series II 3:457-634
Belongs to Enchodus according to A. S. Woodward 1901
See also Davis 1887
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 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, Ischyrocephalus macropterus, Ischyrocephalus intermedius, Ischyrocephalus gracilis, Ischyrocephalus cataphractus, Tetheodus pephredo
Type specimen: BMNH P4788, a skeleton
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Sahil Alma (Lewis collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)
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