| Elginia Temporal range: Changhsingian,
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| The holotype skull of Elginia mirabilis as illustrated by Newton (1893), seen from the side. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Procolophonomorpha |
| Clade: | †Pareiasauria |
| Family: | †Pareiasauridae |
| Genus: | †Elginia Newton, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| †Elginia mirabilis Newton, 1893
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Elginia is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid known from the Late Permian of Scotland and China.[1][2][3] It was named for the area around Elgin in Scotland, which has yielded many fossils referred to as the Elgin Reptiles.
- ^ Newton, E.T. (1893). "VII. On some new reptiles from Elgin Sandstone". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 184: 431–503.
- ^ Lee, M.S.Y. (1997). "A taxonomic revision of pareiasaurian reptiles: implications for Permian terrestrial palaeoecology". Modern Geology. 21: 231–298.
- ^ Liu, Jun; Bever, Gabriel S. (May 2018). Angielczyk, Kenneth (ed.). "The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new species of Elginia (Parareptilia, Pareiasauria)". Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (2): 197–209. doi:10.1002/spp2.1105.