{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | 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 }}
'''''Rhacophyllites''''' is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the family Discophyllitidae.<ref name = Treatise>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L Mollusca 4, Ammonoidea, 1957</ref><ref name=fa>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fossilworks.org/ |title=The Paleobiology Database |access-date=2024-11-18 |archive-date=2022-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819182839/https://www.fossilworks.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> These nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic period, from Carnian to Rhaetian age.<ref name=fb>Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda]</ref>
==Species== * ''Rhacophyllites debilis'' <small>Hauer, 1846</small> * ''Rhacophyllites kavasensis'' <small>Kovacs, 1942<ref name="fa" /></small>
==Description== ''Rhacophyllites'' can reach a maximum diameter of about {{convert|120|mm}}.<ref>[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}}</ref> They have a discoidal, generally evolute shell. The first lateral saddle of the suture is diphyllic and adjacent lateral saddles are diphyllic or triphillic.<ref>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]</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} * 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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Category:Triassic ammonites Category:Ammonitida genera Category:Phylloceratina Category:Ammonites of Europe
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