Hwiccewyrm
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.
| Hwiccewyrm Temporal range: Late Triassic, ~ | |
|---|---|
| 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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