{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|125|72|Hauterivian/Barremian to Campanian}} | image = Ellimmichthyiformes - Armigatus brevissimus.JPG | image_caption = Fossil of ''A. brevissimus'' from Lebanon | taxon = Armigatus | authority = Grande, 1982 | type_species = {{extinct}}''Clupea brevissimus'' | type_species_authority = Blainville, 1818 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = }}

'''''Armigatus''''' is an extinct genus of marine clupeomorph fishes belonging to the order Ellimmichthyiformes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=134504 |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> These fishes lived in the Cretaceous (Albian to Campanian, about 103-72 million years ago); their fossil remains have been found in Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, suggesting the genus ranged across the Tethys Sea.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Alvarado-Ortega |first1=Jesús |last2=Than-Marchese |first2=Bruno Andrés |last3=Melgarejo-Damián |first3=María del Pilar |date=2020 |title=On the Albian occurrence of Armigatus (Teleostei, Clupeomorpha) in America, a new species from the Tlayúa Lagerstätte, Mexico |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346026612 |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |doi=10.26879/1107 |issn=1935-3952 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Etymology== The Latin generic epithet ''Armigatus'', means ''bearer of armor''. The specific epithet ''brevissimus'' signifies "shortest, smallest".

==Description== ''Armigatus'' has an osteoglossid-like tooth patch, a large foramen in the anterior ceratohyal and a series of subtriangular dorsal scutes, giving rise to their scientific name.<ref>Grande, L., 1982: [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/5342//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2728.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y A revision of the fossil genus †Diplomystus, with comments on the interrelationships of clupeomorph fishes.] ''American Museum Novitiates'' 2728: 1–34.</ref>

==Species== *†'''''A. alticorpus''''' <small>Forey ''et al.'', 2003</small><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> from Namoura and Hakel, of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon. *†'''''A. brevissimus''''' <small>(Blainville, 1818)</small>,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Than-Marchese |first1=Bruno Andrés |last2=Alvarado-Ortega |first2=Jesús |date=2022-10-01 |title=Armigatus felixi sp. nov. An Albian double armored herring (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Tlayúa lagerstätte, Mexico |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981122001948 |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |language=en |volume=118 |article-number=103905 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103905 |bibcode=2022JSAES.11803905T |issn=0895-9811|url-access=subscription }}</ref> the type species, from the Cenomanian of Lebanon (Hakel and Hajula in the Sannine Formation), Italy (Sicily), Slovenia (Komen), and Germany (Hesseltal Formation). Type species.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Amalfitano |first1=Jacopo |last2=Giusberti |first2=Luca |last3=Fornaciari |first3=Eliana |last4=Carnevale |first4=Giorgio |date=2020-04-03 |title=UPPER CENOMANIAN FISHES FROM THE BONARELLI LEVEL (OAE2) OF NORTHEASTERN ITALY |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13224 |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |language=en |volume=126 |issue=2 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13224 |issn=2039-4942}}</ref> *†'''''A. carrenoae''''' <small>Alvarado-Ortega ''et al.'', 2020</small> from the Albian Tlayua Formation of Mexico.<ref name=":2" /> *†'''''A. dalmaticus''''' <small>Murray et al., 2016</small> from the Campanian deposits of Dalmatia, Croatia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Murray |first1=Alison M. |last2=Vernygora |first2=Oksana |last3=Japundžić |first3=Sanja |last4=Radovčić |first4=Jakov |last5=Wilson |first5=Mark V. H. |last6=Bardack |first6=David |last7=Grande |first7=Terry |date=2016-11-01 |title=Relationships of the species of Armigatus (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) and the description of a new species from the Cretaceous of Dalmatia, Croatia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=6 |article-number=e1226851 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1226851 |issn=0272-4634 |s2cid=89072541 }}</ref> *†'''''A. elatus''''' <small>(Costa, 1850)</small> from the Albian Pietraroja Plattenkalk of Italy (=''Histiurus elatus'' <small>Costa, 1850</small>)<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Marramà |first=Giuseppe |last2=Carnevale |first2=Giorgio |date=2023 |title=Double-armoured herrings (Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Pietraroja (Southern Italy) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2023.2181109 |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2023.2181109 |issn=1477-2019|url-access=subscription }}</ref> *†'''''A. felixi''''' <small>Than-Marchese ''et al.'', 2022</small> from the Albian Tlayua Formation of Mexico.<ref name=":0" /> *†'''''A. namourensis''''' <small>Forey ''et al.'', 2003</small><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Forey, Peter L.; Yi, Lu; Patterson, Colin; Davies, Cliff E. (2003-01). "[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231903474_Fossil_fishes_from_the_Cenomanian_Upper_Cretaceous_of_Namoura_Lebanon Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon]". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 1 (4): 227–330. doi:10.1017/s147720190300107x. ISSN 1477-2019.</ref> from Namoura, of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon. *†'''''A. oligodentatus''''' <small>Vernygora and Murray, 2016</small><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=VERNYGORA |first1=OKSANA |last2=MURRAY |first2=ALISON M. |title=A New Species of Armigatus (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, and ITS Phylogenetic Relationships |date=January 2016 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=1 |article-number=e1031342 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.1031342 |jstor=24740222 |s2cid=86230107 |issn=0272-4634}}</ref> from the Cenomanian/early Turonian Akrabou Formation of Morocco. *†'''''A. plinii''''' <small>Marramà & Carnevale, 2023</small> from the Albian Pietraroja Plattenkalk of Italy<ref name=":3" /> *†'''''A. simonettoi''''' <small>Amalfitano ''et al''., 2025</small> from the late Hauterivian–early Barremian Grivò Flysch of Italy<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Amalfitano |first=Jacopo |last2=Marramà |first2=Giuseppe |last3=Bannikov |first3=Alexander F. |last4=Dalla Vecchia |first4=Fabio Marco |last5=Carnevale |first5=Giorgio |title=A new armigatid fish (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Italy |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=0 |issue=0 |article-number=e2514113 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2025.2514113 |issn=0272-4634}}</ref>

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