Paracentrophorus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Not to be confused with|Pericentrophorus}}

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{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|250|248|Induan{{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 }}}}

| image = Paracentrophorus.png

| image_caption = Paracentrophorus madagascariensis fossil (type specimen)

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = Actinopterygii

| ordo = {{extinct}}Semionotiformes?

| superfamilia =

| familia = {{extinct}}Semionotidae?

| subfamilia =

| genus = {{extinct}}Paracentrophorus

| genus_authority=Piveteau, 1940

| species =

| binomial = {{extinct}}P. madagascariensis

| binomial_authority = Piveteau, 1940

}}

Paracentrophorus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Madagascar.{{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 }}{{cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Carlo |last2=Koot |first2=Martha B. |last3=Kogan |first3=Ilja |last4=Brayard |first4=Arnaud |last5=Minikh |first5=Alla V. |last6=Brinkmann |first6=Winand |last7=Bucher |first7=Hugo |last8=Kriwet |first8=Jürgen |title=Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution |journal=Biological Reviews |date=February 2016 |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=106–147 |doi=10.1111/brv.12161 |pmid=25431138 |s2cid=5332637 }} The type species is Paracentrophorus madagascariensis (monotypy).

Paracentrophorus is classified as a neopterygian. According to Jean Piveteau, it belongs to Semionotidae.{{cite journal |last1=Piveteau |first1=Jean |title=Paléontologie de Madagascar XXIV. — Nouvelles recherches sur les poissons du Trias inférieur |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |date=1940 |volume=28 |pages=71–88}}