In Depth
Jucha is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur that lived in Russian waters during the early Cretaceous. Jucha is noted for being very primitive in form for an elasmosaurid plesiosaur, though it is uncertain if Jucha was an early development, or perhaps a later surviving example of aprimitive elasmosaurid plesisoaur.
Further reading
- A new elasmosaurid plesiosaurian from the Early Cretaceous of Russia marks an early attempt at neck elongation. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society - Valentin Fischer, Nikolay G. Zverkov, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Ilya M. Stenshin, Ivan V. Blagovetshensky & Gleb N. Uspensky - 2020.
