Bavarisaurus
| Bavarisaurus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | †Bavarisauridae |
| Genus: | †Bavarisaurus Hoffstetter, 1953 |
| Species: | †B. macrodactylus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Bavarisaurus macrodactylus Hoffstetter, 1953
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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
[edit ]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
[edit ]It is the only genus in the Bavarisauridae family.[4] [7]
References
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- ^ a b Bavarisaurus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hoffstetter, R. (1953). Les sauriens anté-cretacées. - Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. natur., 25:345-352, 1 Abb.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c Ostrom J. (1978). The osteology of Compsognathus longipes Wagner. Zitteliana 4: 78–118.
- ^ Evans, S. E. (1994年06月10日). "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.
- ^ Nopcsa, F. (1903). "Neues ueber Compsognathus". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie. 16: 476–494.
- ^ a b 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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