Bavarisaurus
| Bavarisaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Bavarisauridae |
| Genus: | †Bavarisaurus Hoffstetter, 1953 |
| Species: | †B. macrodactylus
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| †Bavarisaurus macrodactylus Hoffstetter, 1953
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Bavarisaurus ('Bavarian lizard') is an extinct genus of basal squamate found in the Altmühltal Formation near Bavaria, Germany.[1] It is the only genus in the family Bavarisauridae.
Discovery and naming
[edit | edit source]The holotype is BSPHM 1873 III[2] and part of the holotype is now lost.[1] A second specimen has also been tentatively assigned to B. macrospondylus by Ostrom (1978).[3]
A fossil skeleton found in the stomach region of a Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur,[4] was originally assigned to the genus by Ostrom (1978),[3] but was renamed to Schoenesmahl by Conrad (2018).[5]
Classification
[edit | edit source]It is the only genus in the Bavarisauridae family.[3][5]
References
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- ^ a b Bavarisaurus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hoffstetter, R. (1953). Les sauriens anté-cretacées. - Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. natur., 25:345-352, 1 Abb.
- ^ a b c Ostrom J. (1978). The osteology of Compsognathus longipes Wagner. Zitteliana 4: 78–118.
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