Abstract: Pikes (Esocidae) are freshwater fishes now dwelling in northem hemisphere, most of them in cold waters south to the polar circle. The farnily contains only one genus (Esox) with five Recent species. Among them two appear in China, one (Esox reicherti) in the northeastem part of China, in the Amur, Sungaria and Wusuli rivers' valley; the other (E. lucius) in the Ertys River in Xinjiang, northwestem China (Meng et al., 1995). The finds of the late Cretaceous, Paleocene and Eocene pikes were so far restricted to North America although their distribution becarne much wider starting fmm the Oligocene (Cavender et al. 1970; Sychevskaya, 1974, 1976; Gaudant, 1978, 1987; Wilson, 1980, 1981, 1984; Wilson et al., 1992; Grande, 1999). mms, the fossil pike described in this paper is the first discovery of its kind fmrn the early Eocene (or late Paleocene) outside of North America. The specimens of pikes described in this paper were collected from the Member 2 of the HuangXian Formation in Wali Coal Mine, Huangxian County, Longkou, Shandong Province (Fig. l). No remains of vertebrates other than fish were found from the Huangxian Formation. Its correlation with the Wutu Formation in the nearby Wutu Basin was based on pollen (Paraalnipollenites-Betulaepollenites plicoides-Polypodiaceaesporites assemblage) and ostracods (e. g. Eucypris wutuensis) found in both formations. The age of the Wutu Formation has been considered as early Eocene by the findings of Homogalax wutuensis and Heptodon niushanensis (Chow and Li, 1965). A big variety of fossil ma.rnrnals belonging to several big groups were discovered recently from the Wutu Formation. Based on the study of the phylogeny of these groups combined with paleobiogeographic, paleoclimatic and biostratigraphic studies of North America and East Asia some researchers suggest the possibility of the age of the Wutu Formation as late Paleocene (Beard and Wang, 1995; Tong and Dawson, 1995; Beard, 1998; Beard and Dawson, 1999). Associated with the pike were disarticulated bones of amiids which are under description by the present authors.