Cryptovenator

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Cryptovenator
Temporal range: Latest
Ma
Holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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

See also

References