Malawania is an extinct genus of basal thunnosaur ichthyosaur known from the middle Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian or Barremian stage) of Iraq.

The type species is Malawania anachronus and it was named by Valentin Fischer, Robert M. Appleby, Darren Naish, Jeff Liston, Riding, J.

The holotype and only known specimen was discovered in 1952 by British petroleum geologists D. M. Morton, F. R. S. Henson, R. J. Wetzel and L. C. F. Damesin while working in Chia Gara, Amadia in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The long, backwards projecting processes of the lacrimals extend halfway underneath the orbits (eye sockets).

[1] With the exception of the quadrangular radiales (carpals below the radii), most of the hand bones of Malawania are hexagon-shaped and tightly interlocked, similar to Macgowania.

[1] The name is derived from "Kurdish ‘Malawan’: swimmer and Latinized Greek noun in apposition ‘anachronus’ meaning ‘out of time’.

[1] Mikadocephalus gracilirostris Hudsonelpidia brevirostris Macgowania janiceps Temnodontosaurus Leptonectes tenuirostris Eurhinosaurus longirostris Excalibosaurus costini Suevoleviathan disinteger Hauffiopteryx typicus Ichthyosaurus communis Malawania anachronus Stenopterygius quadriscissus Chacaicosaurus cayi Arthropterygius chrisorum Mollesaurus periallus Ophthalmosaurus icenicus (type species) Baptanodon natans ("O."