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BAVARISAURUS BAVARIAN LIZARD)
(bav-ah-ree-sore-us)
Bavarisaurus Bavarian lizard)
Named By: Hoffstetter in 1953
Time Period: Late Jurassic
Location: Germany, Bavaria
Size: 30 centimetres long
Diet: Uncertain but possibly an insectivore
Fossil(s): Almost complete specimen
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Squamata | Bavarisauridae |
Also known as: | Homeosaurus macrodactylus |
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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.

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