Lindwurmia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Rhomaleosauridae |
Genus: | †Lindwurmia Vincent and Storrs, 2019 |
Species: | †L. thiuda
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†Lindwurmia thiuda Vincent and Storrs, 2019
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Lindwurmia (named after the Lindwurm) is a rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic of Germany. It contains a single species, Lindwurmia thiuda. It was a small plesiosaur, measuring 2 to 3 m (6.6 to 9.8 ft) long.[1]
The holotype is an incomplete postcranium; the anterior section of the jaws, sixty nine vertebrae, a partial pectoral girdle, pelvic girdles, and the right fore- and hindlimbs.[1]