Sludica

Sludica
Temporal range: Middle-Late Permian
265–254 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Family: Procynosuchidae
Genus: Sludica
Ivakhnenko, 2012
Type species
Sludica bulanovi
Ivakhnenko, 2012

Sludica is an extinct genus of procynosuchid cynodont from the Late Permian of Russia. Fossils have been found in the Ilinskoe Assemblage Zone within Velikoustyugsky District in Vologda Oblast, correlated with the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone. The type and only species is Sludica bulanovi.[1]

  1. ^ Ivakhnenko, M. F. (2012). "Permian Cynodontia (Theromorpha) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 46 (2): 199–207. doi:10.1134/S0031030112020062.