Millerettidae
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| Millerettidae Temporal range: Middle-Late Permian, Capitanian–Changhsingian |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Stem: | †Parareptilia |
| Family: | †Millerettidae Watson, 1957 |
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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]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, 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. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x/abstract.
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