''Sludica'' is an extinct
genus
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of
procynosuchid cynodont
The cynodonts () (clade Cynodontia) are a clade of eutheriodont therapsids that first appeared in the Late Permian (approximately 260 mya), and extensively diversified after the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Cynodonts had a wide variety ...
from the
Late Permian
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of
Russia
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. Fossils have been found in the
Ilinskoe Assembage Zone within
Velikoustyugsky District
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in
Vologda Oblast
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, correlated with the
''Cistecephalus'' Assemblage Zone. The
type and only species is ''Sludica bulanovi''.
References
Prehistoric cynodont genera
Lopingian synapsids of Europe
Permian Russia
Fossils of Russia
Fossil taxa described in 2012
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