Millerosaurus
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| Millerosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian, | |
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| Reconstruction of Millerosaurus lying on a stone. | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Millerosauria |
| Family: | †Millerettidae |
| Genus: | †Millerosaurus Broom, 1948 |
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Millerosaurus is an extinct genus of millerettid parareptile from the Late Permian (Changhsingian stage) of South Africa.[1] It was a small animal which reached a length of 30 cm.[2] Unlike many other parareptiles, it had holes (fenestrae) behind the eyesockets in the skull. It had a slabsided body, a long tail, and a narrow but triangular skull (about 2 inches long) with large eyes, and is thought to have been insectivorous.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ^ Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrect; 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.
- ^ a b Benton, Michael J. (2004). Vertebrate Palaeontology. Vol. 13 (3rd ed.). Wiley. p. 455. ISBN 978-0-632-05637-8.
- ^ "Major Subgroups". University of Bristol. Archived from the original on 2011-01-18. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
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