Milleretta

Milleretta
Temporal range: Changhsingian, 252.5–251 Ma
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life restoration of Milleretta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Parareptilia
Order: †Millerosauria
Family: †Millerettidae
Genus: †Milleretta
Broom, 1948
Type species
†Milleretta rubidgei
(Broom, 1947 [originally Millerina Broom 1938[1]])
Synonyms

Genus-level:
Millerettoides Broom, 1948
Millerettops Broom, 1948

Species-level:
Millerettoides platyceps Broom, 1948
Millerettops kitchingi Broom, 1948
Millerina rubidgei Broom, 1938 [preoccupied by a genus of dipteran[2]]

Milleretta is an extinct genus of millerettid parareptile from the Late Permian of South Africa. Fossils have been found in the Balfour Formation.[3] Milleretta was a moderately sized, lizard-like animal, about 60 centimetres (24 in) in length. It was probably insectivorous.[4] Its only known species is Milleretta rubidgei, making Milleretta a monospecific genus.[5]

  1. ^ Broom, R., 1938. On a new Type of Primitive Fossil Reptile from the Upper Permian of South Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 108: 535-542.
  2. ^ Malloch J.R. 1925. XV.—Exotic Muscaridæ (Diptera).—XV, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 15: 85, 131-142, DOI: 10.1080/00222932508633190
  3. ^ Ruta, M., Cisneros, JC., Liebrecht, T., Tsuji, L. A. and Müller, J. 2011, Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeontology, 54: 1117–1137. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.
  4. ^ Reisz, R. R. & Scott, D. 2002. Owenetta kitchingorum, sp. nov., a small parareptile (Procolophonia: Owenettidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 244-256.
  5. ^ Gow, C.E. 1997. A Note on the Postcranial Skeleton of Milleretta (Amniota: Parareptilia). 34,55–57