Biology:Cryptovenator

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Short description: Extinct genus of synapsids

Cryptovenator
Temporal range: Latest Carboniferous, 300 Ma
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Holotype
Scientific classification e
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 "pelycosaurs" 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jörg Fröbisch; Rainer R. Schoch; Johannes Müller; Thomas Schindler; Dieter Schweiss (2011). "A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1): 113–120. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app56/app20100039.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5191087 entry