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.
| Silphictidoides Temporal range: Late Permian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | †Therocephalia |
| Superfamily: | †Baurioidea |
| Genus: | †Silphictidoides Huene, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| †Silphictidoides ruhuhuensis Huene, 1950
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References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Watson, D.M.S.; Romer, A.S. (1956). "A classification of therapsid reptiles". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 114 (2): 37–89.
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