Dwykia
Extinct genus of fishes
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Dwykia (named after the overlying Dwyka Group) is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the early Carboniferous period (Tournaisian age) in what is now South Africa.[1] It contains a single species, D. analensis from the Waaipoort Formation of the Upper Witteberg Series.[2][3] It is one of a number of early fish genera long placed in the likely paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.[4]
| Dwykia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Dwykiidae Gardiner, 1969 |
| Genus: | †Dwykia Gardiner, 1969 |
| Species: | †D. analensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dwykia analensis Gardiner, 1969 | |
