Laugia
| Laugia Temporal range: | |
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| Laugia slab and counterslab fossils at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Family: | †Laugiidae |
| Genus: | †Laugia Stensiö, 1932 |
| Species: | †L. groenlandica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Laugia groenlandica Stensiö, 1932 | |
Laugia is an extinct genus of coelacanth fish which lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland. The type and only species, Laugia groenlandica, was collected from the Wordie Creek Formation and described by Erik Stensiö. The genus is named after Lauge Koch.