Pygaeus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|55.8|40.4|Early- Middle Eocene<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 363 |pages = 1–560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | accessdate = 2009-02-27 }}</ref>}} | image = Pygaeus gigas 324.JPG | image_caption = ''Pygaeus gigas'' | taxon = Pygaeus | authority = Agassiz, 1835 }}

'''''Pygaeus''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene period in Italy.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Eocene fish Category:Paleogene animals of Europe Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera