article_snippet: Paleontologists believe Carolina Butcher roamed the warm, wet rainforests of what is now North Carolina around 231 million years ago, preying upon small armoured reptiles and early mammals with Carolina Butcher powerful jaws.
article_snippet: Carolina Butcher way though small armoured reptiles and early mammals with Carolina Butcher long powerful jaws .
article_snippet: Researchers discovered fossilised parts of the ferocious crocodilian's skull, spine and forelimbs in a rock formation in Chatham County, close to Sanford, North Carolina.
article_snippet: Meaning: Carolina Butcher.
article_snippet: Carnufex is Latin for Butcher while North Carolina refers to the state of North Carolina where the fossil was found.
article_snippet: The reptile was found in Chatham County, North Carolina.
article_snippet: At the time it was alive North Carolina was part of a super-continent called Pangea and was in the warm, wet equatorial region.
highlights_snippet: Fragments of fossil skull, spine and forelimb were found in North Carolina .
  
highlights_snippet: the prehistoric predator's skull name means Carolina Butcher due to the animal's fearsome appearance .
  