Whiteichthys
Appearance
Whiteichthys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
Genus: | †Whiteichthys Moy-Thomas, 1942 |
Species: | †W. greenlandicus
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Binomial name | |
†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
[edit]Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ^ 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. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.