# Rhacolepis

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [Aptian](/source/Aptian)<br>~{{fossil_range|119|113}}
| image = Rhacolepis buccalis 8743.jpg
| image_caption = ''Rhacolepis buccalis''
| taxon = Rhacolepis
| authority = [Agassiz](/source/Louis_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](/source/Actinopterygii)<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](/source/Cretaceous) [Romualdo Formation](/source/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](/source/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 [heart](/source/heart)s 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''](/source/Notelops).]]
left|thumb|''R. buccalis'' with several hundred small shrimp in stomach.
thumb|Fossil in Vienna

== References ==
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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

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