Tambacarnifex

Tambacarnifex; Temporal range: Early Permian
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.[1]

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

	Mycterosaurus

	Mesenosaurus

Varanodontinae

Aerosaurus

	Watongia

	Varanodon

	Varanops

	Tambacarnifex

References

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 (eds.). 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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[Tambacarnifex-1] 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 (eds.). Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida. in press. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6841-3_5. ISBN 978-94-007-6840-6.