Utegenia
| Utegenia Temporal range: Permian | |
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| Fossil, Paleozoological Museum of China | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Seymouriamorpha |
| Family: | †Utegeniidae |
| Genus: | †Utegenia Kuznetsov & Ivakhnenko, 1981 |
| Species: | †U. shpinari |
| Binomial name | |
| †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 Ürümqi, Xinjiang of China is probably a junior synonym of Utegenia.