Jucha
Jucha is an extinct genus of plesiosaur found in the Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous) Klimovka Formation of Russia. The type species, J. squalea, was one of the basalmost and oldest definitive elasmosaurs known to date (it may have been the oldest considering the Late Triassic Alexeyisaurus was not an elasmosaur).
| Jucha Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Life restoration | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Jucha Fischer et al., 2020 |
| Species: | †J. squalea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Jucha squalea Fischer et al., 2020 | |
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