Milleretta

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Milleretta Fossil range: Late Permian
Conservation status
Prehistoric
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Order: Parareptilia Family: Millerettidae Genus: Milleretta
Binomial name
M. rubidgei

Milleretta was a small, fast-moving reptile that lived in the late Permian period of South Africa, 250 million years ago, an the Oberperm site. It is believed that Milleretta was insectivorous and had acute hearing. Size was about 60 cm. There is only one representative of this genus.

[edit] External links

• The DINOSAUR ENCYCLOPAEDIA on Millaretta.
• Another site with reconstruction, but in German.
• Skull photograph.