Utegenia
Extinct genus of tetrapodomorphs
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Utegenia is a genus of early tetrapod. It is usually regarded as a basal seymouriamorph,[1] but sometimes included in the Discosauriscidae or as a sister taxon of the latter.[2] Only one species, Utegenia shpinari, found from Kazakhstan, is known.[3] Urumqia, another basal seymouriamorph, from Ürümqi, Xinjiang of China[4] is probably a junior synonym of Utegenia.[5]
| Utegenia Temporal range: Permian | |
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| Fossil, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Seymouriamorpha |
| Family: | †Utegeniidae |
| Genus: | †Utegenia Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981 |
| Species: | †U. shpinari |
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| †Utegenia shpinari Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981 | |
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