# Palaeoperca

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

'''''Palaeoperca''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric [bony fish](/source/bony_fish) that lived from the early to middle [Eocene](/source/Eocene). Fossils were found in the [Messel pit](/source/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

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