怀特鱼属

史前肉鰭魚類

怀特鱼属属名Whiteia,得名自发现化石的地质学家艾罗·怀特英语Errol White)是已灭绝的腔棘鱼目肉鳍鱼类,也是怀特鱼科模式属,生存于三叠纪后期,在腔棘鱼中具有相对较大的头部,吻部也较窄长。本属包含六个物种,全长介于7至49公分[2],化石发现于格陵兰加拿大南非马达加斯加与东南亚的帝汶岛[3][4][5][6]

怀特鱼属
化石时期:三叠纪后期,251.9–247 Ma[1]
沃氏怀特鱼结核化石
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 腔棘鱼纲 Coelacanthimorpha
目: 腔棘鱼目 Coelacanthiformes
科: 怀特鱼科 Whiteiidae
属: 怀特鱼属 Whiteia
Moy-Thomas英语James Alan Moy-Thomas, 1935
模式种
沃氏怀特鱼
Whiteia woodwardi

Moy-Thomas, 1935
物种

见内文

物种

  • 非洲怀特鱼 W. africanus (Broom, 1905)
  • 尼氏怀特鱼 W. nielseni Forey, 1998
  • 大石氏怀特鱼 W. oishii Yabumoto & Brito, 2016
  • 疣鳞怀特鱼 W. tuberculata Moy-Thomas, 1935
  • 沃氏怀特鱼 W. woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935
  • 上野氏怀特鱼 W. uyenoteruyai Yabumoto et al., 2019

谱系关系

以下演化树节录自古生物学家帕布罗·托里尼欧(Pablo Toriño)等人于2021年的研究[1]

Piveteauia

Coccoderma

Laugia

腔棘鱼属

贵州空棘鱼属

Wimania

Axelia

怀特鱼属

Heptanema

Dobrogeria

矛尾鱼亚目

参考文献

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 Toriño, P. A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) with comments on the composition of the Mawsoniidae and Latimeriidae: evaluating old and new methodological challenges and constraints. Historical Biology. 2021,. in press. ISSN 1029-2381. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1867982. 
  2. ^ Anderson, K.; Woods, A. D. Taphonomy of Early Triassic fish fossils of the Vega-Phroso Siltstone Member of the Sulphur Mountain Formation near Wapiti Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Palaeogeography. 2013, 2 (4): 321–343 [2021-04-15]. ISSN 2095-3836. doi:10.3724/SP.J.1261.2013.00034. (原始内容存档于2021-04-15). 
  3. ^ Yabumoto, Y.; Brito, P. M.; Iwata, M.; Abe, Y. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia uyenoteruyai (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from Madagascar and paleobiogeography of the family Whiteiidae. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A. 2019, 17: 15–27 [2021-04-15]. ISSN 1348-2653. (原始内容存档于2021-04-16). 
  4. ^ Moy-Thomas, J. A. The Coelacanth Fishes from Madagascar. Geological Magazine. 1935, 72 (5): 213–227. ISSN 0016-7568. doi:10.1017/S0016756800092669. 
  5. ^ Yabumoto, Y.; Brito, P. M. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia. Paleontological Research. 2016, 20 (3): 233–246. ISSN 1342-8144. doi:10.2517/2015PR033. 
  6. ^ Beltan, L. Overview of the systematics, paleobiology, and paleoecology of Triassic fishes of northwestern Madagascar. Mesozoic Fishes — Systematics and Paleoecology. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. 1996: 479–500. ISBN 978-3-923871-90-2.