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 | |
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.