Whiteia

Whiteia
Temporal range:
Whiteia woodwardi fossil
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: †Whiteiidae
Genus: †Whiteia
Moy-Thomas, 1935
Type species
†Whiteia woodwardi
Moy-Thomas, 1935
Other species
  • †W. africana (Broom 1905)
  • †W.? banffensis (Lambe, 1916)
  • †W. tuberculata Moy-Thomas, 1935
  • †W. nielseni Forey, 1998
  • †W. oishii Yabumoto & Brito, 2016
  • †W. uyenoteruyai Yabumoto et al., 2019
  • †W. gigantea Brownstein, 2023

Whiteia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period. It is named after Errol White.

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