Peripeltopleurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|247|237|Anisian-Ladinian{{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 = Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis.JPG

| image_caption = Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis

| taxon = Peripeltopleurus

| type_species = {{extinct}}Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis

| type_species_authority = Bürgin, 1992

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}P. besanensis Bürgin, 1992
• {{extinct}}P. hypsisomus Bürgin, 1992

}}

Peripeltopleurus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Anisian and Ladinian ages of the Middle Triassic epoch.{{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 }}