Euryale sukaczevii is a fossil species of Euryale from the Miocene of Omsk, Russia, and possibly Germany.
Description The ovoid, 6.9–11.8 mm long, and 6.5–9.1 mm wide seeds have a thick, crumpled testa.
Taxonomy It was first published as Euryale sukaczevii P.I. Dorof. by Pavel Ivanovich Dorofeev in 1959. It has been proposed to move it to a separate genus Palaeoeuryale P.I. Dorof., of which it is the type species, as Palaeoeuryale sukaczevii (P.I. Dorof.) P.I. Dorof published by Pavel Ivanovich Dorofeev in 1972. Later it was proposed to move it to the genus Pseudoeuryale P.I. Dorof. as Pseudoeuryale sukaczevii (P.I. Dorof.) Doweld published by Alexander Borisovitch Doweld in 2022.
Distribution It occurred in Russia, and possibly in Germany.
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