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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 |
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Bavarisaurus macrodactylus Hoffstetter 1953 |
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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.