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Bavarisaurus ('Bavarian lizard') is an extinct genus of basal squamate found in the Altmühltal Formation near Bavaria, Germany. It is the only genus in the family Bavarisauridae.

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Bavarisaurus ('Bavarian lizard') is an extinct genus of basal squamate found in the Altmühltal Formation near Bavaria, Germany. It is the only genus in the family Bavarisauridae.

== Discovery and naming == The holotype is BSPHM 1873 III and part of the holotype is now lost. A second specimen has also been tentatively assigned to B. macrospondylus by Ostrom (1978).

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