Actinopteri - Istiophoriformes - Xiphiidae
Alternative combination: Histiophorus eocaenicus
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1901. Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV 1-636
Belongs to Xiphiorhynchus according to H. L. Fierstine 2006
See also Fierstine and Starnes 2005 and Monsch 2004
Sister taxa: Xiphiorhynchus aegyptiacus, Xiphiorhynchus courcelli, Xiphiorhynchus elegans, Xiphiorhynchus homalorhamphus, Xiphiorhynchus hungaricus, Xiphiorhynchus kimblalocki, Xiphiorhynchus parvus, Xiphiorhynchus rotundus, Xiphiorhynchus rupeliensis
Type specimen: BMNH 25744, a skeleton
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Tesheva Creek (Eocene of Mississippi)
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