Millerosaurus
| Millerosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian,
| |
|---|---|
| |
| Reconstruction of Millerosaurus lying on a stone. | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Millerosauria |
| Family: | †Millerettidae |
| Genus: | †Millerosaurus Broom, 1948 |
| Species | |
| |
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.[3][4]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate palaeontology : Volume 13, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, 3e éd., 455 p.
- ^ See the book Vertebrate Paleontology by Michael J. Benton, the third edition, side 115.
- ^ University of Bristol.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | This article about a Permian reptile is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |