Palaeoconchus

{{Short description|Prehistoric genus of molluscs}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Palaeoconchus

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Ordovician|Devonian|ref={{cite journal

| author = Vinn, O.

| year = 2006

| title = Two new microconchid (Tentaculita Bouček 1964) genera from the Early Palaeozoic of Baltoscandia and England

| journal = Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte

| volume = 2006

| issue = 2

| pages = 89–100

| doi = 10.1127/njgpm/2006/2006/89

| url =

| accessdate =

}}}}

| image = Palaeoconchus minor.jpg

| image_caption = Palaeoconchus minor Vinn, 2006 from Late Ordovician of Kõrgessaare, Hiiumaa, Estonia.

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = incertae sedis

| classis = Tentaculita†

| ordo = Microconchida†

| genus = Palaeoconchus†

| genus_authority = Vinn, 2006

| subdivision =

| subdivision_ranks =species

}}

Palaeoconchus is a genus of microconchid tubeworms.

Their tubes have pseudopunctae penetrating the tube wall. Tubes lumen is smooth. Palaeoconchus occurs in the Late Ordovician of Baltica and Avalonia.

In the Devonian it had a global distribution.{{cite journal

| author = Vinn, O.

| year = 2006

| title = Two new microconchid (Tentaculita Bouček 1964) genera from the Early Palaeozoic of Baltoscandia and England

| journal = Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte

| volume = 2006

| issue = 2

| pages = 89–100

| doi = 10.1127/njgpm/2006/2006/89

| url =

| accessdate =

}}