Elonichthys
| Elonichthys Temporal range:
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| Fossil of Elonichthys sp. from the Permian of Germany | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Elonichthyiformes |
| Family: | †Elonichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Elonichthys Giebel, 1848 |
| Type species | |
| †Elonichthys germari Giebel, 1848
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Elonichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish known from the late Paleozoic. The genus sensu stricto contains three species known from the latest Carboniferous to the earliest Permian of freshwater ecosystems of Europe, but as a former wastebasket taxon, it contains many more dubiously-classified species from the Carboniferous and Permian of Europe, Greenland, South Africa, and North America.