Utegenia
Temporal range: Permian
Fossil, Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Synonyms
  • Urumqia Zhang, Li & Wang, 1984

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 Urumqi, Xinjiang of China[4] is probably a junior synonym of Utegenia.[5]

References

  1. ^ Laurin, Michel (1996). "A reappraisal of Utegenia, a Permo-Carboniferous seymouriamorph (Tetrapoda: Batrachosauria) from Kazakhstan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16 (3): 374–383. Bibcode:1996JVPal..16..374L. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011327.
  2. ^ Klembara, Jozef; Ruta, Marcello (2003). "The seymouriamorph tetrapod Utegenia shpinari from the ?Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian of Kazakhstan. Part II: Postcranial anatomy and relationships". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 94: 75–93. doi:10.1017/s0263593300000535. S2CID 140677651.
  3. ^ Laurin, Michel. 1996. Utegenia shpinari. Version 1 January 1996. http://tolweb.org/Utegenia_shpinari/17542/1996.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
  4. ^ Zhang Fakui, Li Yaozeng and Wang Xungang (1984). "A new occurrence of Permian seymouriamorphs in Xinjiang, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 22 (4): 294–304.
  5. ^ Ivakhnenko, M. F. (1987). "Permian parareptiles of USSR". Trudy Paleontologicheskovo Instituta AN SSSR. 223: 1–160.


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