Australopyge

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossilrange|478|471|Arenig}}

|taxon = Australopyge

|authority = Harrington & Leanza, 1957

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision =

• A. acanthura
• A. russoi

}}

Australopyge is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period,{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry) |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |pages=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |accessdate=2008-01-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |archivedate=September 5, 2006}} approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.