Whiteia

Whiteia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period.^[1] It is named after Errol White.

Whiteia Temporal range: Triassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Whiteia woodwardi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
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

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]