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 appea ...
and †
Eunotosauridae. It is the sister group to the order
Procolophonomorpha. It was named in 1957 by Watson. It was once considered a suborder of the disused group
Captorhinida and was called Millerosauroidea. All members of this order are thought to be extinct. ''
Eunotosaurus
''Eunotosaurus'' (''Latin (language), 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 ...
'' 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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Parareptilia
Prehistoric tetrapod orders
Guadalupian first appearances
Lopingian extinctions
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