Dwykia
Extinct genus of fishes
Dwykia Temporal range: Visean PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
Family: | †Dwykiidae Gardiner, 1969 |
Genus: | †Dwykia Gardiner, 1969 |
Type species | |
Dwykia analensis Gardiner, 1969 |
Dwykia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Carboniferous period (Visean age) in what is now South Africa. Fossils were recovered from the Upper Witteberg Series.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Gardiner, Brian George (1969). "New palaeoniscoid fish from the Witteberg series of South Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 48 (4): 423–452. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1969.tb00722.x.
External links
- Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
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