Genus: Parvosaurus FREISEM, MÜLLER, SUES & SOBRA, 2024
Etymology: Latin, parvus, "small" and Latin, sauus, "lizard." in reference to its small size.

Species: harudensis FREISEM, MÜLLER, SUES & SOBRA, 2024
Etymology: In reference to the Harz Mountains in Germany (harud being a historic naem for HArzgau, including Halberstadt) where the specmen was discovered.

Holotype: MB.R.4520.2

Locality: Brick-clay pit along the present-day highway B79 between Halberstadt adn Quedlinburg, on the south-eastern edge of Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt State, Germany.

Horizon: Arnstadt Formation, "Steinmergelkeuper".

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Small skull and dentary comprissing of both nasals, premaxillae and maxillae, complete right and fragmented left parietal, postorbital, jugal and squamosal, fragmentary palate, a right maxilla and left dentary, including maxillary as well as mandibualr teeth and fragmentary braincase.