Milleretta

Milleretta
Temporal range: Changhsingian,
Reconstructed skull and inner ear of Milleretta based on micro-CT scans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: †Millerettidae
Genus: †Milleretta
Broom, 1948
Type species
†Milleretta rubidgei
(Broom, 1947 [originally Millerina Broom 1938])
Synonyms

Genus-level:
Millerettoides Broom, 1948
Millerettops Broom, 1948
Millerosaurus Watson, 1957

Species-level:
Millerettoides platyceps Broom, 1948
Millerettops kitchingi Broom, 1948
Millerosaurus ornatus Broom, 1948
Millerosaurus nuffieldi Waton, 1957
Millerina rubidgei Broom, 1938 [preoccupied by a genus of dipteran]

Milleretta is an extinct genus of millerettid stem-group reptile from the Late Permian of what is now South Africa. Fossils have been found in the Balfour Formation. Its only known species is Milleretta rubidgei, although several other species of millerettid have been synonymized with this genus. Milleretta and its close relatives are unique among Paleozoic stem reptiles in that it secondarily closed an upper and lower temporal fenestra during ontogeny.

Milleretta was a moderately sized, lizard-like animal, about 60 centimetres (24 in) in length. It was probably insectivorous.

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