Raymondites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of bathyurid trilobites}}

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| fossil_range = Late Ordovician, {{fossilrange|Sandbian|Katian}}

| image = Raymondites_replica.png

| image_caption = Replica specimen

| taxon = Raymondites

| authority = Sinclair, 1944

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Raymondites is an extinct genus of bathyurid trilobites that lived during the Late Ordovician{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |year=2002 |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry) |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |url-status=dead |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |accessdate=2008-01-12 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |archivedate=2006-09-05}} and is known from Canada and the U.S.Sinclair, G.W., (1944). Some Ordovician trilobites from Ontario. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute, v. 25, p. 15–20. It may have been a subgenus of Bathyurus.Swisher, R. E., Westrop, S. R., Amati, L. (2015). The Upper Ordovician trilobite Raymondites Sinclair, 1944 in North America. Journal of Paleontology, Volume 89, Issue 1, pp. 110–134. {{doi|10.1017/jpa.2014.10}}

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