Hwiccewyrm

Hwiccewyrm
Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Holotype skull as seen from multiple angles
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: †Parareptilia
Order: †Procolophonomorpha
Family: †Procolophonidae
Subfamily: †Leptopleuroninae
Genus: †Hwiccewyrm
Butler et al., 2023
Type species
†Hwiccewyrm trispiculum
Butler et al., 2023

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.

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