Bavarisaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
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.