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Tambacarnifex

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
†Varanopinae

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
†Varanopidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Similar
  
Phreatophasma, Stereorhachis, Euromycter

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.

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

References

Tambacarnifex Wikipedia