Palaeoperca

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|55.8|40.4|Early- Middle Eocene<ref name="sepkoskidb" />}} | image = Palaeoperca_proxima.jpg | image_caption =''Palaeoperca proxima'' fossil | taxon = Palaeoperca | authority = Micklich, 1978 }}

'''''Palaeoperca''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene. Fossils were found in the Messel pit.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 363 |pages = 1–560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | access-date = 2009-02-27 }}</ref>

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Category:Serranidae Category:Eocene fish Category:Cenozoic animals of Europe Category:Fossil taxa described in 1978