Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Sphyraenidae
Alternative combination: Enchodus carinatus
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part I. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:1-104
Belongs to Sphyraena according to E. D. Cope 1869
See also Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Sphyraena argentea, Sphyraena barracuda, Sphyraena bognorensis, Sphyraena bolcensis, Sphyraena crassidens, Sphyraena lugardi, Sphyraena major, Sphyraena novaehollandiae, Sphyraena pannonica, Sphyraena substriata
Type specimen: Its type locality is Elasmosaurus type, McAllaster Butte, which is in a Campanian/Campanian marine horizon in the Pierre Shale Formation of Kansas
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Elasmosaurus type, McAllaster Butte
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