# Peripeltopleurus

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|247|196|[Anisian](/source/Anisian)-[Sinemurian](/source/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](/source/extinct) [genus](/source/genus) of prehistoric [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish) that lived during the [Anisian](/source/Anisian) to [Sinemurian](/source/Sinemurian) [ages](/source/age_(geology)) of the [Middle Triassic](/source/Middle_Triassic)-[Early Jurassic](/source/Early_Jurassic) [epoch](/source/epoch_(geology)).<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](/source/Prehistoric_fish)
* [List of prehistoric bony fish](/source/List_of_prehistoric_bony_fish)

==References==
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Category:Middle Triassic fish
Category:Peltopleuriformes
Category:Triassic fish of Europe

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