Milleretta

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Milleretta
Fossil range: Late Permian

Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Parareptilia
Suborder: Millerosauroidea
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, at 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.

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