Amphiperca is an extinct genus of freshwater percomorph ray-finned fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene of Europe.[1] It has one known species, A. multiformis, known from the famous Messel Pit of Germany. Indeterminate remains are known from concurrent formations in Occitanie, France.[2] It was a predatory fish that is known to have fed on Thaumaturus and Rhenanoperca.[3]
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| Specimen at State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Genus: | †Amphiperca Weitzel, 1933 |
| Species: | †A. multiformis
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| †Amphiperca multiformis Weitzel, 1933
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Some authors have suggested serranid or percichthyid affinities for it.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ "Micklich,N. et al. 2019, New information on the feeding... Bulletin of Geosciences, 94, 315-336". www.geology.cz. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ Arratia, Gloria; Quezada-Romegialli, Claudio (2019-04-25). "The South American and Australian percichthyids and perciliids. What is new about them?". Neotropical Ichthyology. 17: e180102. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20180102. ISSN 1679-6225.
