thumb|left|Peipiaosteus pani fossil thumb|left|Peipiaosteus pani fossil thumb|left|Fossil of the Peipiaosteidae|peipiaosteid Yanosteus longidorsalis (at [[MHNT), a close relative of Peipiaosteus]]
thumb|left|Peipiaosteus pani fossil thumb|left|Peipiaosteus pani fossil thumb|left|Fossil of the Peipiaosteidae|peipiaosteid Yanosteus longidorsalis (at [[MHNT), a close relative of Peipiaosteus]]
Peipiaosteus is an extinct genus of prehistoric chondrostean ray-finned fish. Its fossils are found in the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, Pani Lake, Liaoning Province, China. thumb|Reconstruction of Peipiaosteus pani Peipiaosteus belongs to the family Peipiaosteidae, together with the genera Liaosteus, Spherosteus, Stichopterus, and Yanosteus. Peipiaosteidae lived in Asia (China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia) during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous epochs. They are closely related to Chondrosteidae (Early Jurassic, Europe) and to living sturgeon and paddlefish (Acipenseroidei).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).