Palaeophichthys

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|308|306|Late Moscovian}}

| taxon = Palaeophichthys

| authority = Eastman 1908

}}

Palaeophichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Desmoinsian stage of the Pennsylvanian epoch.{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 |page=560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | access-date = 2009-02-27 }}