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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Ellimmichthyiformes |
| Family: | †Paraclupeidae |
| Genus: | †Ellimmichthys Jordan, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| †Diplomystus longicostatus Cope, 1886
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Ellimmichthys is an extinct genus of freshwater clupeomorph fish belonging to the order Ellimmichthyiformes, of which it is the type genus. It was a distant relative of modern herrings and anchovies.[1] It inhabited freshwater rift lakes in the supercontinent of West Gondwana (comprising modern South America and Africa) during the Early Cretaceous, and fossil remains are known from formations in both South America (Brazil) and Africa (Equatorial Guinea).[2][3]
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ de Figueiredo, Francisco J.; Gallo, Valéria (2021-01-01). "Revision of †Ellimmichthys longicostatus (Clupeomorpha: †Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil with comments on the taxonomy of related species". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 105: 103006. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103006. ISSN 0895-9811.
- ^ Marramà, Giuseppe; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Kriwet, Jürgen; Carnevale, Giorgio (2019). Cavin, Lionel (ed.). "An Eocene paraclupeid fish (Teleostei, Ellimmichthyiformes) from Bolca, Italy: the youngest marine record of double-armoured herrings". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (1): 83–98. doi:10.1002/spp2.1230. ISSN 2056-2799. PMC 6392134. PMID 30854219.