Tambacarnifex

Tambacarnifex
Temporal range: Early Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Family: Varanopidae
Subfamily: Varanopinae
Genus: Tambacarnifex
Berman et al., 2013
Type species
Tambacarnifex unguifalcatus
Berman et al., 2013

Tambacarnifex (meaning "Tambach butcher") is an extinct genus of varanodontine synapsid known from the Early Permian Tambach Formation of Free State of Thuringia, central Germany. It was first named by David S. Berman, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, Thomas Martens and Valerie Pelletier in 2013 and the type species is Tambacarnifex unguifalcatus.[1]

Below is a simplified version of the cladogram found by Berman et al., 2013.[1]

Varanopidae

Archaeovenator



Mycterosaurinae

Heleosaurus




Elliotsmithia




Mycterosaurus



Mesenosaurus





Varanodontinae

Aerosaurus





Watongia



Varanodon





Varanops



Tambacarnifex







References

  1. 1 2 David S. Berman; Amy C. Henrici; Stuart S. Sumida; Thomas Martens; Valerie Pelletier (2013). "First European record of a varanodontine (Synapsida: Varanopidae): member of a unique Early Permian upland paleoecosystem, Tambach Basin, central Germany". In Christian F. Kammerer; Kenneth D. Angielczyk; Jörg Fröbisch. Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida. in press. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6841-3_5. ISBN 978-94-007-6840-6.


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