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Extinct family of reptiles

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

References

  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.

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