Silphictidoides

Silphictidoides
Temporal range: Late Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Order: Therapsida
Suborder: Therocephalia
Infraorder: Scylacosauria
Parvorder: Eutherocephalia
Superfamily: Baurioidea
Genus: Silphictidoides
Huene, 1950
Type species
Silphictidoides ruhuhuensis
Huene, 1950

Silphictidoides is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid 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.