Jucaraseps
Jucaraseps Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Clade: | Scincogekkonomorpha |
Genus: | †Jucaraseps Bolet & Evans, 2012 |
Type species | |
†Jucaraseps grandipes Bolet & Evans, 2012
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Jucaraseps is an extinct genus of small squamate lizard known from the Early Cretaceous of Las Hoyas, Spain. It contains a single species, Jucaraseps grandipes. It belonged to the clade Scincogekkonomorpha (containing scleroglossan squamates and those taxa which were more closely related to them than to Iguania) and was related to the clade Scleroglossa as well to Jurassic and Cretaceous taxa Eichstaettisaurus, Ardeosaurus, Bavarisaurus, Parviraptor, Yabeinosaurus and [1]
References[]
- ^ Bolet, A.; Evans, S. E. (2012). "A tiny lizard (Lepidosauria, Squamata) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain". Palaeontology. 55 (3): 491–500. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01145.x.
Categories:
- Cretaceous lizards
- Fossils of Spain
- La Huérguina Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2012
- Prehistoric lizard stubs