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Whiteia
Taxonomy
Whiteia was named by Moy-Thomas (1935) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr Indu-u]. It is the type genus of Whiteiidae.
It was assigned to Coelacanthidae by Moy-Thomas (1935), Lehman (1952) and Beltan (1968); to Coelacanthiidae by Schaeffer and Mangus (1976); to Coelacanthiformes by Forey (1998); to Coelocanthiformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Whiteiidae by Schultze (2004), Arratia and Schultze (2015) and Yabumoto and Brito (2016).
It was assigned to Coelacanthidae by Moy-Thomas (1935), Lehman (1952) and Beltan (1968); to Coelacanthiidae by Schaeffer and Mangus (1976); to Coelacanthiformes by Forey (1998); to Coelocanthiformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Whiteiidae by Schultze (2004), Arratia and Schultze (2015) and Yabumoto and Brito (2016).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1935 | Whiteia Moy-Thomas p. 215 figs. text-figs 1-2 |
1952 | Whiteia Lehman p. 17 |
1968 | Whiteia Beltan p. 113 |
1976 | Whiteia Schaeffer and Mangus p. 549 |
1998 | Whiteia Forey p. 300 |
2002 | Whiteia Sepkoski |
2004 | Whiteia Schultze p. 466 |
2015 | Whiteia Arratia and Schultze p. 2 |
2016 | Whiteia Yabumoto and Brito p. 233 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Whiteia Moy-Thomas 1935
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†Whiteia africanus Broom 1905
†Whiteia nielseni Forey 1998
†Whiteia oishii Yabumoto and Brito 2016
†Whiteia tuberculata Moy-Thomas 1935
†Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas 1935
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available