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.
Along with the Early Triassic Belemnocerca and the Late Jurassic Coccoderma, it forms the family Laugiidae. Laugia can be distinguished from other laugiids by its smaller number of tail fin rays: 17âÂÂ18 in the top lobe and 13âÂÂ14 in the bottom lobe, compared to 21âÂÂ22 in the top lobe for the other two genera. Most other coelacanths have symmetrical numbers of tail fin rays.