Bavarisaurus
| Bavarisaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Bavarisauridae |
| Genus: | Bavarisaurus |
| Species: | B. macrodactylus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bavarisaurus macrodactylus Hoffstetter 1953 | |
Bavarisaurus ('Bavarian lizard') is an extinct genus of basal lizard found in the Solnhofen limestone near Bavaria, Germany. It is best known from a fossil skeleton found in the stomach region of a Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur.[1]
References
- ↑ Nopcsa, Baron F. (1903). "Neues ueber Compsognathus". Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie (Stuttgart) 16: 476–494.
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