Provampyroteuthis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of cephalopods}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|86.3|83.6|Santonian}}

| genus = Provampyroteuthis

| parent_authority = Kanie, 1998{{cite journal|last=Kanie |first=Y. |year=1998 |title=New vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) jaw apparatuses from the Late Cretaceous of Japan |journal=Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History |volume=2 |pages=23–34 |url=http://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin02_3.pdf}}

| species = giganteus

| authority = Kanie, 1998

}}

Provampyroteuthis is an extinct genus of vampire squids from the Late Cretaceous of Japan. It contains one species, P. giganteus. It is known from several beaks found as the stomach contents of an elasmosaurid.{{cite journal|last1=Kanie |first1=Y. |last2=Hasegawa |first2=Y. |last3=Okazaki |first3=Y. |last4=Tatematsu |first4=M. |year=1998 |title=Vampyromorph: past and present. Cretaceous vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) as the diet of plesiosaur |journal=Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History |volume=2 |pages=11–22 |url=http://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin02_2.pdf}} The validity of the genus has more recently been questioned.{{cite journal|last1=Tanabe |first1=K. |last2=Trask |first2=P. |last3=Ross |first3=R. |last4=Hikida |first4=Y. |year=2008 |title=Late Cretaceous octobrachiate coleoid lower jaws from the north Pacific regions |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=398–408 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248399237 |doi=10.1666/07-029.1|bibcode=2008JPal...82..398T }}