Millerettid

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Millerettidae

Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Captorhinida
Suborder: Millerosauroidea
Family: Millerettidae
Genera
  • Broomia
  • Heleophilus
  • Milleretoides
  • Milleretta
  • Millerettops
  • Milleropsis
  • Millerosaurus
  • Nanomilleretta

The milleretids is an extinct group of anapsids that lived in South Africa during the Upper Permian. They were small insectivores and probably resembled modern lizards in appearance and lifestyle.

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