| 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 ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian age of the Mississippian epoch in what is now Greenland.
It is named after Errol Ivor White.
Classification
Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae.
References
- ^ 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.
