Silphictidoides

Silphictidoides Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	†Therocephalia
Superfamily:	†Baurioidea
Genus:	†Silphictidoides Huene, 1950
Type species
†Silphictidoides ruhuhuensis Huene, 1950

Silphictidoides is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of Tanzania. The type species Silphictidoides ruhuhuensis was named by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1950 from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone.^[1] Silphictidoides was once classified within the family Silpholestidae.^[2] Silphedolestids are no longer recognized as a valid grouping, and Silphictidoides is now considered a basal member of the clade Baurioidea.

References

1. Kamen-Kaye, M. (1978). "Permian to Tertiary faunas and paleogeography: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa". Journal of Petroleum Geology. 1 (1): 79–101. doi:10.1111/j.1747-5457.1978.tb00602.x.
2. Watson, D.M.S.; Romer, A.S. (1956). "A classification of therapsid reptiles". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 114 (2): 37–89.