Millerosauria is an order of Parareptiles that contains the families †

Millerettidae Millerettidae is an extinct family of parareptiles from the Middle Permian to the Late Permian period (Capitanian - Changhsingian stages) of South Africa. The millerettids were small insectivores and probably resembled modern lizards in appearanc ...

and †

Eunotosauridae ''Eunotosaurus'' (''Latin'': Stout-backed lizard) is an extinct genus of amniote, possibly a close relative of turtles. ''Eunotosaurus'' lived in the late Middle Permian (Capitanian stage) and fossils can be found in the Karoo Supergroup of Sout ...

. It is the sister group to the order

Procolophonomorpha Procolophonomorpha is an order or clade containing most parareptiles. Many papers have applied various definitions to the name, though most of these definitions have since been considered synonymous with modern parareptile clades such as Ankyramo ...

. It was named in 1957 by Watson. It was once considered a suborder of the disused group

Captorhinida Fossil of '' Labidosaurus hamatus'' Captorhinida (older name: Cotylosauria) is a doubly paraphyletic grouping of early reptiles. Robert L. Carroll (1988) ranked it as an order in the subclass Anapsida, composed of the following suborders:R. L. Ca ...

and was called Millerosauroidea. All members of this order are thought to be extinct. '' Eunotosaurus'' has been recovered as a stem-turtle in recent cladistic studies.Schoch RR, Sues HD (2015) A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature14472. pub ahead of print/ref>

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* Parareptiles Prehistoric animal orders Guadalupian first appearances Lopingian extinctions {{permian-reptile-stub