Biology:Whiteichthys
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Genus: | †Whiteichthys Moy-Thomas, 1942
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| †Whiteichthys greenlandicus Moy-Thomas, 1942
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Whiteichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian age of the Mississippian epoch in what is now Greenland.[1]
It is named after Errol Ivor White.
Classification
Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.[3]
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ↑ "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35057&is_real_user=1. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012.
- ↑ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. pp. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
Wikidata ☰ Q7996110 entry
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