Hwiccewyrm
Fossil genus of parareptile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hwiccewyrm (meaning "Hwicce dragon") is an extinct genus of leptopleuronine procolophonid parareptile from the Late Triassic Magnesian Conglomerate of England. The type, and currently only, species is H. trispiculum.[1]
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Hwiccewyrm | |
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Holotype skull as seen from multiple angles | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
Family: | †Procolophonidae |
Subfamily: | †Leptopleuroninae |
Genus: | †Hwiccewyrm Butler et al., 2023 |
Type species | |
†Hwiccewyrm trispiculum Butler et al., 2023 |
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