Editing Clupeidae (section)

=== Fossil genera ===
[[File:Knightia eocaena FBNM.JPG|thumb|''[[Knightia]]'', a famous fossil clupeid from the [[Eocene]]]]
The following fossil genera have been variously suggested to be ''sensu stricto'' members of Clupeidae. Many were formerly placed in the subfamily Clupeinae:

* ?†''[[Audenaerdia]]'' <small>Taverne, 1973</small> (alternatively Clupeidae or [[Alosidae]])<ref name=":0" />
* †''[[Italoclupea]]'' <small>Taverne, 2007</small>''<ref name=":0" />''
* †''[[Knightia]]'' <small>[[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]], 1907</small><ref name=":0" />
* †''[[Lecceclupea]]'' <small>Taverne, 2011</small>''<ref name=":0" />''
* †''[[Xyne]]'' <small>Jordan, 1921</small> (likely closely related to ''Clupea'')<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fossil_Fishes_of_Southern_California/OAkx-hPen4MC? |title=Fossil Fishes of Southern California |date=1919 |publisher=Stanford University |language=en}}</ref>

==== Disputed fossil genera ====
Known fossil genera classified under the ''[[sensu lato]]'' concept of Clupeidae include:<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53981 |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A new clupeid fish from the upper Miocene of Greece: A possible <em> Hilsa</em> relative from the Mediterranean - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |url=https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app008712020.html |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.app.pan.pl |language=en}}</ref>

* †''[[Alisea]]''
* †''[[Austroclupea]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gallo |first1=Valéria |last2=Calvo |first2=Jorge O. |last3=Kellner |first3=Alexander W. A. |date=2011-04-01 |title=First record of a clupeomorph fish in the Neuquén Group (Portezuelo Formation), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=223–235 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.006 |issn=0195-6671|doi-access=free |bibcode=2011CrRes..32..223G }}</ref>
* †''[[Bolcaichthys]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marramà |first=Giuseppe |last2=Carnevale |first2=Giorgio |date=2015-11-02 |title=The Eocene sardine †Bolcaichthys catopygopterus (Woodward, 1901) from Monte Bolca, Italy: osteology, taxonomy, and paleobiology |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/02724634.2015.1014490 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=6 |pages=e1014490 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.1014490 |issn=0272-4634|hdl=2318/1566882 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* †''[[Chasmoclupea]]''
* †''[[Clupeidarum]]'' [<nowiki/>[[otolith]]]
* †''[[Clupeops]]'' 
* †''[[Eoalosa]]'' 
* ''†[[Eosardinella]]'' 
* †''[[Etringus]]''
* †''[[Ganoessus]]''
* †''[[Ganolytes]]''
* †''[[Gosiutichthys]]''
* †''[[Horaclupea]]''
* †?''[[Hypsospondylus]]''
* †''[[Karaganops]]''
* †''[[Marambionella]]''
* †''[[Maicopiella]]''
* †''[[Moldavichthys]]''
* †''[[Paleopiquitinga]]''
* †''[[Primisardinella]]''
* †''[[Pseudohilsa]]''
* †''[[Quisque]]''
* †''[[Rupelia]]''
* †''[[Sarmatella]]'' (=†''Illusionella'')<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baykina |first=E. M. |date=2013-09-01 |title=A revision of Clupea doljeana Kramberger and Sarmatella vukotinovici (Kramberger) (Pisces, Clupeidae) from the Sarmatian of Croatia |url=https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030113050043 |journal=Paleontological Journal |language=en |volume=47 |issue=5 |pages=523–532 |doi=10.1134/S0031030113050043 |bibcode=2013PalJ...47..523B |issn=1555-6174}}</ref>
* †''[[Trollichthys]]''
* †''[[Vectichthys]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=GAUDANT |first=J |last2=QUAYLE |first2=W. J. |date=1988 |title=New palaeontological studies on the Chapelcorner Fish Bed (Upper Eocene, Isle of Wight) |url=https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=6971254 |journal=New palaeontological studies on the Chapelcorner Fish Bed (Upper Eocene, Isle of Wight) |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=15–39 |issn=0007-1471}}</ref>
* †''[[Waihaoclupea]]''
* †''[[Wisslerius]]''
* †''[[Xenophanis]]''
* †''[[Xyrinius]]''