| Empeirodytes Temporal range: Oligocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | †Plotopteridae |
| Genus: | †Empeirodytes Ohashi & Hasegawa, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| Empeirodytes okazakii Ohashi & Hasegawa, 2020
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Empeirodytes is an extinct genus of Plotopteridae, a family of large flightless bird known from the Late Eocene to the Early Miocene of the West Coast of the United States, British Columbia and Japan. Remains associated with Empeirodytes have been found in Oligocene rocks of the Ashiya Group, on the islands of Ainoshima and Kaijima, near Kitakyushu, Japan.[1]
- ^ Ohashi, T; Hasegawa, Y (2020). "New species of Plotopteridae (Aves) from the Oligocene Ashiya Group of Northern Kyushu, Japan". Paleontological Research. 24 (4): 285–297. doi:10.2517/2020PR005.