''Cryptovenator'' (''Crypto'', from Greek kryptos (hidden, secret); ''venator'', from Latin (hunter)) is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus of sphenacodontid pelycosaurs which existed in Germany during the latest

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

(late

Gzhelian The Gzhelian ( ) is an age in the ICS geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest stage of the Pennsylvanian, the youngest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Gzhelian lasted from to Ma. It follows the Kasim ...

age, 300 Ma ± 2.4 Ma). It is known from the holotype LFN−PW 2008/5599−LS, an anterior right mandible fragment, recovered from a dark, fine grained sandstone of the middle Remigiusberg Formation. It was first named by Jörg Fröbisch, Rainer R. Schoch, Johannes Müller, Thomas Schindler and Dieter Schweiss in 2011 in paleontology, 2011 and the type species is ''Cryptovenator hirschbergeri''.

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Fröbisch ''et al.'', 2011:

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Sphenacodontidae Carboniferous synapsids Prehistoric synapsid genera Prehistoric synapsids of Europe Fossil taxa described in 2011 {{Paleo-Synapsid-stub

Phylogeny

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