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] In 2020, Ohashi Tomoyuki and Hasegawa Yoshikazu first described the remains of Empeirodytes okazakii, assigning as holotype KMNH VP 600011, a partial left coracoid found in Oligocene-aged rocks of the Ashiya Group on the island of Ainoshima, Japan.

[1] The species name, "okazakii", honours Okazaki Yoshihiro, another vertebrate researcher who worked on fossils from the Ashiya Group.

Empeirodytes is mostly differentiated from other genera of plotopterids by the presence of a high and sharp ridge on the caudal margin of the labrum internum, and of a clear depression on the ventral surface of the portion where the shaft of the coracoid articulates with the humerus.