Tambacarnifex

Tambacarnifex
Temporal range: Artinskian
~290–284 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
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 synapsids 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.

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

Varanopidae

Archaeovenator

Mycterosaurinae

Heleosaurus

Elliotsmithia

Mycterosaurus

Mesenosaurus

Varanodontinae

Aerosaurus

Watongia

Varanodon

Varanops

Tambacarnifex



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