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Quick facts for kids 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 in Madagascar and Canada during the Early Triassic period.

Taxonomy

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

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