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Silpholestes
| Silpholestes 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 |
| Family: | †Silpholestidae Watson and Romer, 1956 |
| Genus: | †Silpholestes Broom, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| †Silpholestes jackae Broom, 1948
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Silpholestes is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsids from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species Silpholestes jackae was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1948 from the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone.
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