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Díaz-Cruz, Jesús
Alberto; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Carbot-Chanona, Gerardo (June 2016). "The Cenomanian short snout enchodontid fishes (Aulopifomes, Enchodontidae) from Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico".
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Fielitz, Christopher; González-Rodríguez, Katia A. (2010). "A New
Species of Enchodus (aulopiformes: Enchodontidae) from the Cretaceous (albian to Cenomanian) of Zimapán, Hidalgo, México".
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Davis, Matthew P.; Fielitz, Christopher (December 2010). "Estimating divergence times of lizardfishes and their allies (Euteleostei: Aulopiformes) and the timing of deep-sea adaptations".
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Rana, R. S.; Kumar, K.; Singh, H.; Rose, K. D. (2005). "Lower vertebrates from the Late
Palaeocene–Earliest Eocene Akli Formation, Giral Lignite Mine, Barmer District, western India".
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Chida, Mori; Brinkman, Donald B.; Murray, Alison M. (October 2023). "A large, new dercetid fish (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the
Campanian Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada".
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Murray, Alison M.; Chida, Mori; Holmes, Robert B. (30 June 2022). "New enchodontoid fish (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Late
Cretaceous of Lebanon".
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Aulopiformes, although most recent studies have recovered the group as monophyletic, based on the synapomorphy of
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Silva, Hilda M. A; Gallo, Valéria (June 2011). "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of
Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes)".
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da Silva, Hilda Maria
Andrade; Gallo, Valéria (October 2016). "Distributional patterns of enchodontoid fishes in the Late Cretaceous".
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