Amphiperca

Amphiperca Temporal range: Middle Eocene [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Specimen at State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
Scientific classification
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. 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.