Jucaraseps
Extinct genus of lizards
| Jucaraseps Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | Scincogekkonomorpha |
| Genus: | †Jucaraseps Bolet & Evans, 2012 |
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| †Jucaraseps grandipes Bolet & Evans, 2012 | |
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 Sakurasaurus[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.
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Extinct squamate genera
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Superorder: Lepidosauria
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