Dwykia
Dwykia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.