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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Aulopiformes |
| Family: | †Halecidae |
| Genus: | †Halec Agassiz, 1834 |
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| †Halec sternbergi Agassiz, 1834
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Halec is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine aulopiform ray-finned fish from mid-late Cretaceous of Europe. It is the type genus of the enchodontoid family Halecidae.1
The following species are placed in this genus:234
- H. eupterygius (Dixon, 1850) - Cenomanian to Coniacian of England (English Chalk) (=Pomognathus eurypterygius Dixon, 1850)5
- H. haueri (Bassani, 1879) - Cenomanian of Hvar, Croatia (Starigrad Limestone) (=Elopopsis haueri Bassani, 1879)
- H. sternbergi Agassiz, 1834 (type species) - mid-late Turonian of the Czech Republic & Germany (=Archaeogadus guestphalicus von der Marck, 1868)
The species 'H.' laubei Frič, 1878 from the Turonian of the Czech Republic is of uncertain validity.36 The species H. microlepis from Lebanon is now generally placed in its own genus, Phylactocephalus.2
References
References
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- Silva, Hilda M. A.; Gallo, Valéria (2011). "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes)". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 83: 483–511. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010. ISSN 0001-3765.
- Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
- "†Halec Agassiz 1834 (ray-finned fish)". The Paleobiology Database.
- Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2016). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 430 (1): 165–200. doi:10.1144/SP430.18. ISSN 0305-8719.
- Ekrt, Boris; Košt'ák, Martin; Mazuch, Martin; Voigt, Silke; Wiese, Frank (2008-08-01). "New records of teleosts from the Late Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic)". Cretaceous Research. 29 (4): 659–673. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.01.013. ISSN 0195-6671.