# Pygaeus

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|55.8|40.4|Early- Middle [Eocene](/source/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](/source/bony_fish) that lived from the early to middle [Eocene](/source/Eocene) period in Italy.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>

==See also==
{{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}}
* [Prehistoric fish](/source/Prehistoric_fish)
* [List of prehistoric bony fish](/source/List_of_prehistoric_bony_fish)

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

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