| Amphiperca Temporal range: Middle Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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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 |
| 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. 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. It was a predatory fish that is known to have fed on Thaumaturus and Rhenanoperca.
Some authors have suggested serranid or percichthyid affinities for it.
References
- ^ 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.
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