Bavarisaurus
{{Short description|Extinct genus of squamate reptile}}
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| fossil_range = Late Jurassic, {{fossilrange|Tithonian}}
| image = Schoenesmahl.png
| image_caption = Life reconstruction
| genus = Bavarisaurus
| parent_authority = Hoffstetter, 1953
| species = macrodactylus
| authority = Hoffstetter, 1953
| synonyms = *"Bavariasaurus" (sic)
- Homoeosaurus macrodactylus Wagner, 1854
}}
Bavarisaurus ('Bavarian lizard') is an extinct genus of basal squamate found in the Altmühltal Formation near Bavaria, Germany.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37897 Bavarisaurus] at Fossilworks.org It is the only genus in the family Bavarisauridae.
Discovery and naming
The holotype is BSPHM 1873 IIIHoffstetter, R. (1953). Les sauriens anté-cretacées. - Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. natur., 25:345-352, 1 Abb. and part of the holotype is now lost. A second specimen has also been tentatively assigned to B. macrospondylus by Ostrom (1978).Ostrom J. (1978). The osteology of Compsognathus longipes Wagner. Zitteliana 4: 78–118.
A fossil skeleton found in the stomach region of a Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur,{{cite journal |last= Nopcsa|first= F.|year=1903|title= Neues ueber Compsognathus |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie |volume=16 |pages=476–494}} was originally assigned to the genus by Ostrom (1978), but was renamed to Schoenesmahl by Conrad (2018).{{Cite journal|first=J.L. |last=Conrad |year=2018 |title=A new lizard (Squamata) was the last meal of Compsognathus (Theropoda: Dinosauria) and is a holotype in a holotype |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=183 |issue=3 |pages=584–634 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx055 }}
Classification
References
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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1953
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