Genus: Lindwurmia VINCENT & STORRS, 2019
Etymology: German, Lindwurm, the word for a mythical, snake-like dragon.
Species: thiuda VINCENT & STORRS, 2019 (Type)
= Plesiosaurus (Thaumatosaurus) aff. megacephalo BRANDES, 1912
= Thaumatosaurus aff. megacephalo BRANDES, 1914
Etymology: German, thiuda,
adjectivally 'thiudisk', in the language of the Goths. Thuidisk (of the people) became diustic in Old High German and Deutsch in modern vernacular
Holotype: SMH uncatalogued.
Locality: Halberstadt (Kanonenberg), Saxony-Anhalt State, Germany.
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Biostratigraphy: Psiloceras johnstoni Ammonite subzone.
Age: Lower Hettangian Stage, Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.
Material: Partial skull preserving the anterior skull roof and palate, and part of the mandible, 69 vertebrae, partial pectoral and pelvic girdles, partial right fore and hind limbs.