| Peipiaosteus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acipenseriformes |
| Family: | †Peipiaosteidae |
| Genus: | †Peipiaosteus Liu & Zhou, 1965 |
| Type species | |
| †Peipiaosteus pani Liu & Zhou, 1965
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Peipiaosteus is an extinct genus of prehistoric chondrostean ray-finned fish. Its fossils are found in the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, Pani Lake, Liaoning Province, China.[1][2][3]
Peipiaosteus belongs to the family Peipiaosteidae, together with the genera Liaosteus, Spherosteus, Stichopterus, and Yanosteus. Peipiaosteidae lived in Asia (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia) during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous epochs. They are closely related to Chondrosteidae (Early Jurassic, Europe) and to living sturgeon and paddlefish (Acipenseroidei).[4][5]
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Liu, H. T. and Zhou, J . J. 1965. A new sturgeon from the Upper Jurassic of Liaoning, North China. - Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 9, 3, 237-247. In Chinese with English abstract
- ^ Zhou, Zhonghe (1992). "Review on Peipiaosteus based on new material of P. pani". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 30: 85–101.
- ^ Bemis, William E.; Findeis, Eric K.; Grande, Lance (1997). "An overview of Acipenseriformes". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 48 (1–4): 25–71. doi:10.1023/A:1007370213924. S2CID 24961905.
- ^ Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance; Jin, Fan (2021). "Redescription of †Yanosteus longidorsalis Jin et al., 1995 (Chondrostei, Acipenseriformes, †Peipiaosteidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China". Journal of Paleontology. 95 (1): 170–183. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.80. S2CID 225158727.