{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|247|196|Anisian-Sinemurian<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 |page=560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | accessdate = 2009-02-27 }}</ref>}} | image = Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis.JPG | image_caption = ''Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis'' | taxon = Peripeltopleurus | authority = | type_species = {{extinct}}''Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis'' | type_species_authority = Bürgin, 1992 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision = * {{extinct}}''P. besanensis'' <small>Bürgin, 1992</small> * {{extinct}}''P. hypsisomus'' <small>Bürgin, 1992</small> * {{extinct}}''P. jurassicus'' <small>Franceschi, Marramà, Carnevale, 2026</small> }}
'''''Peripeltopleurus''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Anisian to Sinemurian ages of the Middle Triassic-Early Jurassic epoch.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 |page=560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | accessdate = 2009-02-27 }}</ref><ref name="Ostenolepis">{{Cite journal |last1=Franceschi |first1=F. |last2=Marramà |first2=G. |last3=Carnevale |first3=G. |year=2026 |title=Bony fishes (Osteichthyes) from the Sinemurian (Jurassic) Osteno Konservat-Lagerstätte (Como, NW Italy) |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=132 |issue=1 |pages=9–58 |doi=10.54103/2039-4942/29058|doi-access=free }}</ref> Represents the only known Jurassic survivor of the order Peltopleuriformes.<ref name="Ostenolepis" />
== See also == {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish
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Category:Middle Triassic fish Category:Peltopleuriformes Category:Triassic fish of Europe
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