Lindwurmia

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 long.

== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|The holotype specimen 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. It was discovered in the Psiloceras johnstoni ammonite subzone in the clay quarry of Thiemeke'shen Ziegelei in Halberstadt, Germany in 1899 by Johannes Maak, with the dragline excavator that hit upon the specimen partially destroying it in the process; Maak had the specimen restored by 1900 and it was subsequently sent to the Halberstadt City Museum.