Rhacolepis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Aptian<br>~{{fossil_range|119|113}} | image = Rhacolepis buccalis 8743.jpg | image_caption = ''Rhacolepis buccalis'' | taxon = Rhacolepis | authority = Agassiz, 1841 | type_species = '''''Rhacolepis buccalis''''' | type_species_authority = Agassiz, 1841 | subdivision = * ''R. buccalis'' {{small|Agassiz, 1841}} * ''R. latus'' {{small|Agassiz, 1841}} }}

'''''Rhacolepis''''' is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish<ref name="pdb">{{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35433 |title=''Rhacolepis''|publisher=Paleobiology Database|access-date=2017-10-13}}</ref> from the Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Donald B. Brinkman & A. G. Neuman |year=2002 |title=Teleost centra from uppermost Judith River Group (Dinosaur Park Formation, Campanian) of Alberta, Canada |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=138–155 |doi=10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0138:TCFUJR>2.0.CO;2|s2cid=130770708 |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/14754/files/PAL_E1882.pdf }}</ref> Complete fossilised hearts from this species have been recovered.<ref>[https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e14698 Maldanis et al. (2016) Heart fossilization is possible and informs the evolution of cardiac outflow tract in vertebrates]</ref>{{clearleft}}thumb|''R. buccalis'' skull|left[[File:Rhacolepis inside the stomach of a Notelops brama.jpg|left|thumb|Inside the stomach of a ''Notelops brama''.]] left|thumb|''R. buccalis'' with several hundred small shrimp in stomach. thumb|Fossil in Vienna

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Category:Pachyrhizodontidae Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Cretaceous bony fish Category:Prehistoric fish of South America Category:Cretaceous Brazil Category:Fossils of Brazil Category:Romualdo Formation Category:Fossil taxa described in 1841 Category:Taxa named by Louis Agassiz Category:Early Cretaceous fish of South America