Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org. Diagnosis for Whiteia woodwardi from Moy-Thomas 1935, p. 215: "Medium sized or small slender Coelacanths. Head relatively large. Skull with triangular operculars and preoperculars, quadrato-jugals, squamosals, postorbitals, lacrimo-jugals, supra- temporals, parietals, five extra scapular (post-parietal) plates and the angular ornamented with numerous tubercles. The coronoids are dumb-bell shaped and unornamented. The dermosphenotics (post frontals) are separat