Bavarisaurus
| Bavarisaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | † |
| Genus: | † 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
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
It is the only genus in the Bavarisauridae family.[3][5]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Nopcsa, F. (1903). "Neues ueber Compsognathus". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. 16: 476–494.
- ^ a b Conrad, J.L. (2018). "A new lizard (Squamata) was the last meal of Compsognathus (Theropoda: Dinosauria) and is a holotype in a holotype". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183 (3): 584–634. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx055.
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