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'''''Millerosaurus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[millerettid]] [[parareptile]] from the [[Late Permian]] ([[Changhsingian]] stage) of [[South Africa]].<ref name=Parareptilia2>{{cite journal |author=Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji and Johannes Muller |year=2011 |title=Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x/abstract |journal=Palaeontology |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=1117–1137 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x }}</ref>It was a small animal which reached a length of 30 cm.<ref>Michael J. Benton, ''Vertebrate palaeontology'' : Volume 13, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, 3e éd., 455 p.</ref> Unlike many other [[parareptile]]s, it had holes ([[Fenestra (anatomy)|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]].<ref name = VP>[http://books.google.se/books?id=P1LkOL1CijEC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=millerosaurus&source=bl&ots=SbEArVTLp4&sig=R_vjKfTZWVLOXwErM1MTG0ctJ8w&hl=sv&ei=X5MHS4W3BM7t-QbPheTFDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBTge#v=onepage&q=millerosaurus&f=false See the book ''Vertebrate Paleontology'' by Michael J. Benton, the third edition, side 115.]</ref><ref>[http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/anapsida/subgroup.html University of Bristol.]</ref> |
'''''Millerosaurus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[millerettid]] [[parareptile]] from the [[Late Permian]] ([[Changhsingian]] stage) of [[South Africa]].<ref name=Parareptilia2>{{cite journal |author=Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji and Johannes Muller |year=2011 |title=Amniotes through major biological crises: faunal turnover among Parareptiles and the end-Permian mass extinction |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x/abstract |journal=Palaeontology |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=1117–1137 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01051.x }}</ref>It was a small animal which reached a length of 30 cm.<ref>[[Michael J. Benton]], ''Vertebrate palaeontology'' : Volume 13, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, 3e éd., 455 p.</ref> Unlike many other [[parareptile]]s, it had holes ([[Fenestra (anatomy)|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]].<ref name = VP>[http://books.google.se/books?id=P1LkOL1CijEC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=millerosaurus&source=bl&ots=SbEArVTLp4&sig=R_vjKfTZWVLOXwErM1MTG0ctJ8w&hl=sv&ei=X5MHS4W3BM7t-QbPheTFDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBTge#v=onepage&q=millerosaurus&f=false See the book ''[[Vertebrate Palaeontology (Benton)|Vertebrate Paleontology]]'' by [[Michael J. Benton]], the third edition, side 115.]</ref><ref>[http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/anapsida/subgroup.html University of Bristol.]</ref> |
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| Millerosaurus Temporal range: Late Permian,
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| Reconstruction of Millerosaurus lying on a stone. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Parareptilia |
| Order: | †Millerosauria |
| Family: | †Millerettidae |
| Genus: | †Millerosaurus Broom, 1948 |
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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]
References
- ^ Marcello Ruta, Juan C. Cisneros, Torsten Liebrect, Linda A. Tsuji and 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate palaeontology : Volume 13, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, 3e éd., 455 p.
- ^ See the book Vertebrate Paleontology by Michael J. Benton, the third edition, side 115.
- ^ University of Bristol.
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