Bavarisaurus

Bavarisaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Tithonian
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: †Bavarisauridae
Genus: †Bavarisaurus
Hoffstetter, 1953
Species:
†B. macrodactylus
Binomial name
†Bavarisaurus macrodactylus
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.[1] It is the only genus in the family Bavarisauridae. A fossil skeleton found in the stomach region of a Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur,[2] was originally assigned to the genus by Ostrom (1978),[3] but was renamed to Schoenesmahl by Conrad (2018).[4]

The holotype is BSPHM 1873 III[5] and part of the holotype is now lost.[1] A second specimen has also been tentatively assigned to B. macrospondylus by Ostrom (1978).[3]

  1. ^ a b Bavarisaurus at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Nopcsa, F. (1903). "Neues ueber Compsognathus". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. 16: 476–494.
  3. ^ a b Ostrom J. (1978). The osteology of Compsognathus longipes Wagner. Zitteliana 4: 78–118.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Hoffstetter, R. (1953). Les sauriens anté-cretacées. - Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. natur., 25:345-352, 1 Abb.