Milleretta

Milleretta Temporal range: Late Permian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Family:	†Millerettidae
Genus:	†Milleretta
Species:	†M. rubidgei
Binomial name
Milleretta rubidgei Broom, 1938

Milleretta was a fast-moving reptile that lived in the late Permian period of South Africa, 250 million years ago. Fossils have been found at the Oberperm site.

Milleretta was a moderately sized, lizard-like animal, about 60 centimetres (24 in) in length. It was probably insectivorous^[1] and had acute hearing.^{[citation needed]} Although once thought to have been ancestral to the diapsids, the group that includes lizards, the discovery of much older diapsid fossils has since ruled this possibility out.^[1]

There is only one representative of this genus.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Palmer, D., ed (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 65. ISBN 1-84028-152-9. 

External links

• The Dinosaur Encyclopaedia on Millaretta.
• Another site with reconstruction, but in German.
• Skull photograph.

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