[1] The holotype, and only known specimen of Limnoscansor, given the designation CM 4026, was discovered at a place called Wintershof Quarry, near Eichstätt in the rocks of the Solnhofen Limestone — a geological unit that is well-known for exceptional preservation of small animals.

He gave it the species epithet, "digitatellus", in reference to the apparently fragile digits of the specimen, which appear to have been damaged some time after the animal died, but before it was fossilized.

[4] Upon re-examination in 1963, the French paleontologist Marguerite Cocude-Michel realized that CM 4026 did not belong to a rhynchocephalian at all, and instead represented a species of squamate, related to modern geckos.

[1] The newly reassigned Ardeosaurus digitatellus was given a detailed modern description in a publication in 2016 by several researchers from the University of Alberta including Tiago Simões, Michael Caldwell, Randall Nydam, and Paulina Jiménez-Huidobro.

[1] †Limnoscansor †Ardeosaurus †Helioscopos †Schoenesmahl †Eichstaettisaurus †Norellius †Hoburogekko Gekkota Other small reptiles are known from the Wintershof Quarry including the closely related squamates Ardeosaurus and Eichstaettisaurus, the rhynchocephalian Pleurosaurus, the crocodyliform Alligatorellus, and the pterosaur Ctenochasma.