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Utegenia

Utegenia
Temporal range: Permian
Ariekanerpeton sigalovi.jpg
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
(unranked): Reptiliomorpha
Order: Seymouriamorpha
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Utegenia
Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981
Species: Utegenia shpinari
Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981
Synonyms
  • Urumqia Zhang, Li & Wang, 1984

Utegenia is a genus of early tetrapod. It is usually regarded as a basal seymouriamorph, but sometimes included in the Discosauriscidae or as a sister taxon of the latter. Only one species, Utegenia shpinari, found from Kazakhstan, is known.Urumqia, another basal seymouriamorph, from Urumqi, Xinjiang of China is probably a junior synonym of Utegenia.


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