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Utegenia Temporal range: Permian |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| (unranked): | Reptiliomorpha |
| Order: | Seymouriamorpha |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: |
Utegenia Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981 |
| Species: |
Utegenia shpinari Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981 |
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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.