Lindwurmia
Appearance
Lindwurmia Temporal range:
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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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Vincent, Peggy; Storrs, Glenn W. (2019-01-28). "Lindwurmia, a new genus of Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the earliest Jurassic of Halberstadt, northwest Germany". The Science of Nature. 106 (1): 5. Bibcode:2019SciNa.106....5V. doi:10.1007/s00114-018-1600-y. ISSN 1432-1904. PMID 30689058. S2CID 59304744.