Dwykia analensis was named by Gardiner (1969). Its type specimen is SAM, a partial skeleton (posterior half of fish wanting dorsal and pelvic fins), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Soetendalsvlei, which is in a Tournaisian lacustrine - large mudstone/marl in the Waaiport Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Dwykia.