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
Temporal range: Middle-Late Permian, Capitanian–Changhsingian
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 
 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. 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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