Millerosaurus

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]

Millerosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian, Changhsingian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Reconstruction of Millerosaurus lying on a stone.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	†Parareptilia
Order:	†Millerosauria
Family:	†Millerettidae
Genus:	†Millerosaurus Broom, 1948
Species
†M. ornatus Broom, 1948 (type) †"M." nuffieldi Watson, 1957

References

1. 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.
2. Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate palaeontology : Volume 13, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, 3e éd., 455 p.
3. See the book Vertebrate Paleontology by Michael J. Benton, the third edition, side 115.
4. "University of Bristol". Archived from the original on 2011-01-18. Retrieved 2009-11-21.