Millerettidae
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.
| Millerettidae Temporal range: Middle-Late Permian, | |
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| Life restoration of Milleretta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Millerosauria |
| Family: | †Millerettidae Watson, 1957 |
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The following cladogram shows the phylogenetic position of the Millerettidae, from Ruta et al., 2011.
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