Rhacophyllites
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| fossil_range = Upper Triassic, {{fossil range|217|212}}
| image = Discophyllitidae - Rhacophyllites debilis.JPG
| image_caption = Rhacophyllites debilis from Austria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
| taxon = Rhacophyllites
| authority = Zittel, 1884
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Rhacophyllites is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the family Discophyllitidae.Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L Mollusca 4, Ammonoidea, 1957[https://www.fossilworks.org The Paleobiology Database] These nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic period, from Carnian to Rhaetian age.Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda]
Species
Description
Rhacophyllites can reach a maximum diameter of about {{convert|120|mm}}.[http://www.incrediblescience.co.nz/online/rhacophyllites-an-ammonite/ Incredible Science] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529052245/http://www.incrediblescience.co.nz/online/rhacophyllites-an-ammonite/|date=2014-05-29}} They have a discoidal, generally evolute shell. The first lateral saddle of the suture is diphyllic and adjacent lateral saddles are diphyllic or triphillic.J. Perrin Smith [https://books.google.com/books?id=hkQRAAAAIAAJ&dq=Rhacophyllites&pg=PA100 THE UPPER TRIASSIC MARINE INVERTEBRATE FAUNAS OF NORTH AMERICA, pg. 100]
References
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- Siemon Wm. Muller [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1298526?uid=3738296&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104227996723 Genotype of the Ammonite Genus Rhacophyllites] Journal of Paleontology Vol. 13, No. 5 (Sep., 1939), pp. 533–537
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