En´cho`dus

(Paleon.) A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; - so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

Teleostean teeth (Enchodus sp.) and otoliths (Chaetodipterus sp.

Lithological Outcrops Anomotodon Enchodus Chaetodipterus units sp.

Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)

Other marine vertebrates typically found in association with plesiosaurs include marine turtles (Whetstone, 1977; Kear, 2003) and various fishes, such as Enchodus, Coelodus, Oseroides, and Hoplopteryx (Ekrt et al., 2001).

Late Cretaceous plesiosaur teeth from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

(basibranchial tooth plate and isolated teeth); the aulopiform Enchodus sp.

Late Cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages of the Lano Quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

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