Dictyopyge

Dictyopyge; Temporal range:
	Dictyopyge macrura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Palaeonisciformes
Genus:	†Dictyopyge Lyell, 1847
Binomial name
	†Catopterus macrurus; Redfield, 1841
Other species
	†D. meekeri Schaeffer & Mc Donald, 1978; †"D." rhenana Deecke, 1889; †"D." socialis (Berger, 1843); †"D." catoptera (Agassiz, 1835); †"D." superstes (Egerton, 1858);

Dictyopyge is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater bony fish. Two species are recognized, D. macrurus and D. meekeri, which both lived during the Carnian age (Late Triassic) in what is now Virginia, United States.

Several possibly unrelated species from the Triassic of Europe are provisionally referred to Dictyopyge ("D." rhenana, "D." socialis, "D." catoptera, "D." superstes), while three species from the Middle Triassic of Australia previously referred to Dictyopyge have been tentatively reallocated to the genus Brookvalia.

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