Biology:Whiteia

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Short description: Extinct genus of coelacanths


Whiteia
Temporal range: Triassic
MHNT - Whiteia woodwardi.jpg
Whiteia woodwardi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sarcopterygii
Order:
Actinistia
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.[1] It is named after Errol White.

Taxonomy

The type species is Whiteia woodwardi from the Early Triassic of Madagascar . Other Early Triassic species are W. tuberculata, W. uyenoteruyai (both Madagascar), W. nielseni (East Greenland), W.? banffensis (Alberta, Canada) and W. africana (South Africa ).[1] Two species, W. oishii (West Timor, Indonesia) and W. gigantea (Texas , United States), are of Late Triassic age.[2][3][4]

The nominal species Coelacanthus evolutus Beltan, 1980 is a junior synonym of Whiteia woodwardi.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. 
  2. ↑ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M. (2016). "A New Triassic Coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia". Paleontological Research 20 (3): 233–246. doi:10.2517/2015PR033. 
  3. ↑ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Brito, Paulo M.; Iwata, Masamitsu; Abe, Yoshitaka (2019). "A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia uyenoteruyai (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from Madagascar and paleobiogeography of the family Whiteiidae". Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History) 17: 15–28. 
  4. ↑ Brownstein, Chase D. (2023). "A large coelacanth, †Whiteia giganteus sp. nov., from the Triassic of Texas, USA, establishes a Pangean radiation of early Mesozoic actinistians". Palaeontologia Electronica 26 (1): a9. https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/1254.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Forey, Peter L. (1998). History of the coelacanth fishes. London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 434. ISBN 9780412784804. .

Wikidata ☰ Q16947123 entry




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