Cryptovenator

Cryptovenator; Temporal range: Latest Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Synapsida
Order:	Pelycosauria
Family:	Sphenacodontidae
Genus:	Cryptovenator; Fröbisch et al., In press
Species
	C. hirschbergeri Fröbisch et al., In press;

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).^[1] It was first named by Jörg Fröbisch, Rainer R. Schoch, Johannes Müller, Thomas Schindler and Dieter Schweiss in 2010 and the type species is Cryptovenator hirschbergeri.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous ofthe Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. 2010. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help); External link in |title= (help)

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[Fröbischetal2010-1] "A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous ofthe Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. 2010. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help); External link in |title= (help)

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