Clupeomorpha
| Clupeomorpha Temporal range: Early Cretaceous to present, | |
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| Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Cohort: | Otocephala |
| Superorder: | Clupeomorpha Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 |
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Clupeomorpha is a superorder of ray-finned fish which belongs to the clade Otocephala. Represented today only by the diverse, economically-important order Clupeiformes (containing herrings, anchovies and allies), it was formerly even more diverse, with the extinct order Ellimmichthyiformes also known. Fossil records of this group date back to the Berriasian/Valanginian boundary, with the genus Ellimmichthys.