Whiteia

Whiteia
Temporal range: Triassic
Whiteia woodwardi in Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Sarcopterygii
Order: Actinistia
Family: Whiteiidae
Genus: Whiteia
Moy-Thomas, 1935
Species
  • W. africanus (Broom 1905)
  • W. nielseni (Forey, 1998)
  • W. oishii (Yabumoto & Brito, 2016)
  • W. tuberculata (Moy-Thomas, 1935)
  • W. woodwardi (Moy-Thomas, 1935)

Whiteia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period.


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