Coelacanth Fish Fossil † Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 from Ambilobe, Madagascar by Dr-Norman Khalaf

Coelacanth Fish Fossil † Whiteia woodwardi MoyThomas, 1935 from Ambilobe, Madagascar Quastenflosser Fossil † Whiteia woodwardi MoyThomas, 1935 aus Ambilobe, Madagaskar ‫ مدغشقر‬، ‫أحفورة سمكة ال ُجمبيزة وايتيا ُود ُوردي من أمبيلوبه‬ By: Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher Mohammad Ahmad Mostafa Khalaf- Prinz Sakerfalke von Jaffa When I was searching the internet for articles about the Coelacanth Fishes, I noticed that there was a Coelacanth fish fossil specimen from Madagascar for sale on ebay in August 2018. The coelacanth fish fossil belonged to the species Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 (Family Whiteiidae) from the Mesozoic Era, Lower Triassic Period (Olenekian Stage), around 247 million years ago, from Ambilobe, Madagascar. Dimension of the fossil nodule: 28 X 12 cm. Weight: 5000 gram. Price 340.00 US Dollars.

Coelacanth Fish Fossil Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 from Madagascar. https://www.ebay.com/itm/COELACANTH-fish-fossil-Trias-Madagascar-size-28-X-12-cm-CO32/183369034681?hash=item2ab1a56bb9%3Ag%3AdPUAAOSwL7dba%7E%7EW&_sacat=0&_nkw=coell acanth+madagascar&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

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Genus Whiteia Whiteia fossils have been found at Wapiti Lake, Canada (Mutter and Neuman, 2009), as well as in Lower Triassic strata from East Greenland (Stensiö, 1932) and Madagascar (Moy-Thomas, 1935). Whiteia are a type of coelacanth and are structurally different from the ray-finned actinopterygians. A distinctive feature is the caudal fin, which has three lobes, consisting of a symmetrical upper and lower lobe and a separate middle lobe (Moy-Thomas, 1935, Neuman, 1996). In addition, coelacanths have two distinct dorsal fins (ancient actinopterygians had only one dorsal fin); only the posterior of the two dorsal fins is lobed (Moy-Thomas, 1935). The anterior dorsal fin resembles the ray fins of actinopterygians; the posterior dorsal fin, pectoral fins and pelvic fins are lobed and have a rounded morphology (Moy-Thomas, 1935). The rounded fin structure of Whiteia suggests slow movement, and sculling type locomotion (Forey, 1997, Fricke and Hissmann, 1992). Whiteia likely stalked and lunged at prey (Neuman, 1996); small teeth suggest Whiteia ate small organisms in addition to phytoplankton, algae, and organic detritus (Beltan, 1996; Anderson, Woods, Min, Yuan, 2013).

Quastenflosser aus Ambilobe, Madagaskar Aus den triassischen Ablagerungen um Ambilobe, Madagaskar wurden 3 Gattungen von Quastenflossern mit zusammen 5 Spezies beschrieben: Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 Whiteia tuberculata Moy-Thomas, 1935 Piveteauia madagascariensis Lehman, 1952 Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 173 – May 2019

Coelacanthus madagascariensis Woodward, 1910 Coelacanthus evolutus Beltan, 1980 Whiteia tuberculata wird von Lehman angezweifelt. Coelacanthus madagascariensis und C. evolutus sind jeweils nur durch ein Exemplar bekannt; C. madagascariensis ist zudem ungenügend beschrieben und schlecht erhalten. Whiteia woodwardi kann von Piveteauia madagascariensis unter anderem durch Stellung von 2. Dorsal- und Afterflosse unterschieden werden. Bei Whiteia beginnt die Analflosse deutlich hinter der 2. Dorsalflosse - bei Piveteauia liegen 2. Dorsal- und Afterflosse gegenüber (Bastelberger, 2013).

Front part of the Coelacanth Fish Fossil Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 from Madagascar. https://www.ebay.com/itm/COELACANTH-fish-fossil-Trias-Madagascar-size-28-X-12-cm-CO32/183369034681?hash=item2ab1a56bb9%3Ag%3AdPUAAOSwL7dba%7E%7EW&_sacat=0&_nkw=coell acanth+madagascar&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

Classification Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 173 – May 2019

Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes Classis: Sarcopterygii Ordo: Coelacanthiformes Familia: †Whiteiidae Genus: †Whiteia Species: †W. africanus – †W. nielseni – †W. oishii – †W. tuberculata – †W. woodwardi (Wikispecies).

Middle part of the Coelacanth Fish Fossil Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 from Madagascar. https://www.ebay.com/itm/COELACANTH-fish-fossil-Trias-Madagascar-size-28-X-12-cm-CO32/183369034681?hash=item2ab1a56bb9%3Ag%3AdPUAAOSwL7dba%7E%7EW&_sacat=0&_nkw=coell acanth+madagascar&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

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Rear part of the Coelacanth Fish Fossil Whiteia woodwardi Moy-Thomas, 1935 from Madagascar. https://www.ebay.com/itm/COELACANTH-fish-fossil-Trias-Madagascar-size-28-X-12-cm-CO32/183369034681?hash=item2ab1a56bb9%3Ag%3AdPUAAOSwL7dba%7E%7EW&_sacat=0&_nkw=coell acanth+madagascar&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313

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