Amphiperca

Amphiperca
Temporal range: Middle Eocene[1]
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Specimen at State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Genus: †Amphiperca
Weitzel, 1933
Species:
†A. multiformis
Binomial name
†Amphiperca multiformis
Weitzel, 1933

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]

Some authors have suggested serranid or percichthyid affinities for it.[4]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  3. ^ "Micklich,N. et al. 2019, New information on the feeding... Bulletin of Geosciences, 94, 315-336". www.geology.cz. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  4. ^ 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.


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