Bavarisaurus

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Bavarisaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
Life reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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, 1852

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] It was initially identified as a species of Homoeosaurus as H. macrodactylus by Wagner (1852).[3] A second partial specimen was tentatively assigned to B. macrospondylus by Ostrom (1978),[4] and Evans (1994) also identified fragmentary skull material belonging to Bavarisaurus.[5]

A fossil skeleton found in the stomach region of a Compsognathus, a small theropod dinosaur,[6] was originally assigned to the genus by Ostrom (1978),[4] but was renamed to Schoenesmahl by Conrad (2018).[7]

Classification

It is the only genus in the Bavarisauridae family.[4][7]

References

  1. Bavarisaurus at Fossilworks.org
  2. Hoffstetter, R. (1953). Les sauriens anté-cretacées. - Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. natur., 25:345-352, 1 Abb.
  3. Wagner, J. A. (1852). Neu-aufgefundene Saurier-Überreste aus den lithographischen Schiefern und dem obern Jurakalke. München: Verl. d. Akad. S. [661] - 710, Bl. XVII - XX
  4. Ostrom J. (1978). The osteology of Compsognathus longipes Wagner. Zitteliana 4: 78–118.
  5. Evans, S. E. (1994-06-10). "The Solnhofen (Jurassic: Tithonian) lizard genus Bavarisaurus. New skull material and a reinterpretation". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 192 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1127/njgpa/192/1994/37. ISSN 0077-7749.
  6. Nopcsa, F. (1903). "Neues ueber Compsognathus". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. 16: 476–494.
  7. 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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