Cryptovenator

Cryptovenator
Temporal range: Latest Carboniferous, 300 Ma
Holotype
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Family: Sphenacodontidae
Subfamily: Sphenacodontinae
Genus: Cryptovenator
Fröbisch et al., 2011
Type species
Cryptovenator hirschbergeri
Fröbisch et al., 2011
Restoration

Cryptovenator (Crypto, from Greek kryptos (hidden, secret); venator, from Latin (hunter)) is an extinct genus of sphenacodontid pelycosaur which existed in Germany during the latest Carboniferous (late Gzhelian age, 300 Ma ± 2.4 Ma). It is known from the holotype LFN−PW 2008/5599−LS, an anterior right mandible fragment, recovered from a dark, fine grained sandstone of the middle Remigiusberg Formation. It was first named by Jörg Fröbisch, Rainer R. Schoch, Johannes Müller, Thomas Schindler and Dieter Schweiss in 2011 and the type species is Cryptovenator hirschbergeri.[1]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Fröbisch et al., 2011:[1]



Edaphosauridae


Sphenacodontia

Haptodus garnettensis




Palaeohatteria longicaudata



Pantelosaurus saxonicus



Ianthodon schultzei




Cutleria wilmarthi


Sphenacodontoidea

Therapsida


Sphenacodontidae

Secodontosaurus obtusidens




Cryptovenator hirschbergeri




Sphenacodon



Ctenospondylus



Dimetrodon










See also

References

  1. 1 2 Jörg Fröbisch, Rainer R. Schoch, Johannes Müller, Thomas Schindler and Dieter Schweiss (2011). "A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1): 113–120. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039.
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