Dwykia

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Dwykia
Temporal range: Tournaisian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family:† Dwykiidae
Gardiner, 1969
Genus:† Dwykia
Gardiner, 1969
Species:
†D. analensis
Binomial name
†Dwykia analensis
Gardiner, 1969

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]

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  1. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Gess, Robert W. (2016), Linol, Bastien; de Wit, Maarten J. (eds.), "Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of the Witteberg Group and the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in South Africa" , Origin and Evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 131–140, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40859-0_13, ISBN   978-3-319-40859-0 , retrieved 2024-12-15
  4. ↑ GARDINER, BRIAN G.; SCHAEFFER, BOBB; MASSERIE, JUDY A. (2005-08-01). "A review of the lower actinopterygian phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144 (4): 511–525. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00181.x. ISSN   0024-4082.
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