Biology:Millerettidae

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Short description: Extinct family of reptiles

Millerettidae
Temporal range: Middle-Late Permian, Capitanian–Changhsingian
Life restoration of Milleretta
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Parareptilia
Order: †Millerosauria
Family: †Millerettidae
Watson, 1957
Subgroups

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Millerettidae is an extinct family of parareptiles from the Middle Permian to the Late Permian period (Capitanian - Changhsingian stages) of South Africa .[1] The millerettids were small insectivores and probably resembled modern lizards in appearance and lifestyle.

The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of the Millerettidae, from Ruta et al., 2011.[1]

Parareptilia 
 Mesosauria 
 

Brazilosaurus sanpauloensis

 
 

Mesosaurus tenuidens

 
 

Stereosternum tumidum

 
 
 
 

Eunotosaurus africanus

 
 Millerettidae 
 

Milleretta rubidgei

 
 
 

Broomia perplexa

 
 
 

"Millerosaurus" nuffieldi

 
 
 

Milleropsis pricei

 
 

Millerosaurus ornatus

 
 
 
 
 
 Procolophonomorpha 
 

Australothyris smithi

 
 

Microleter mckinzieorum

 
 

Ankyramorpha

 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrecht; Linda A. Tsuji; Johannes Muller (2011). "Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction". Palaeontology 54 (5): 1117–1137. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2286106 entry




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