Millerettidae

Millerettidae Temporal range: Middle-Late Permian, Capitanian–Changhsingian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration of Milleretta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	†Parareptilia
Order:	†Millerosauria
Family:	†Millerettidae Watson, 1957
Subgroups
See text.

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. Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrecht, Linda A. Tsuji and 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.

External links

• Berkeley University information.