Placopleurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|247|237|Middle Triassic}}

| image = Placopleurus besanensis.JPG

| image_caption = Placopleurus besanensis fossil

| taxon = Placopleurus

| type_species = {{extinct}}Placopleurus primus

| type_species_authority = Brough, 1939

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision = * {{extinct}}P. besanensis (Bassani, 1886)

}}

Placopleurus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Middle Triassic epoch (Anisian and Ladinian stages) of Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland.{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |date=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27}}{{cite journal |last=Bürgin |first=Toni |year=1992 |title=Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Systematic palaeontology with notes on functional morphology and palaeoecology |journal=Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen |volume=114 |pages=1–164}}