Dwykia

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Dwykia
Temporal range: Visean
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Dwykia

Gardiner, 1969
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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.[2]

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  1. ^ "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012.
  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.

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