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Utegenia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Seymouriamorpha

Family
  
incertae sedis

Rank
  
Genus

Utegenia tolweborgtreeToLimagesUtegeniaskullgif

Species
  
Utegenia shpinari Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981

Similar
  
Seymouriamorpha, Kotlassia, Eldeceeon, Silvanerpeton, Makowskia

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.

References

Utegenia Wikipedia