Millerettidae
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.
Millerettidae | |
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Life restoration of Milleretta | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Millerosauria |
Family: | †Millerettidae Watson, 1957 |
Subgroups | |
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The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of the Millerettidae, from Ruta et al., 2011.[1]
Parareptilia |
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References
- 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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