Milleropsis Temporal range: Late Permian,
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | †Parareptilia |
Order: | †Millerosauria |
Family: | †Millerettidae |
Genus: | †Milleropsis Gow, 1972 |
Type species | |
†Milleropsis pricei (Watson, 1957 [originally Millerosaurus pricei])
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Synonyms | |
Millerinoides Broom, 1941 |
Milleropsis is an extinct genus of millerettid parareptile from the Late Permian (Changhsingian stage) of South Africa.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Gow, C. E. (1972). "The osteology and relationships of the Millerettidae (Reptilia: Cotylosauria)". Journal of Zoology. 167 (2): 219–264. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1972.tb01731.x. ISSN 1469-7998.
- ^ Cisneros, Juan Carlos; Rubidge, Bruce S.; Mason, Richard; Dube, Charlton (24 November 2008). "Analysis of millerettid parareptile relationships in the light of new material of Broomia perplexa Watson, 1914, from the Permian of South Africa". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (4): 453–462. doi:10.1017/S147720190800254X. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 73723455.
- ^ Marcello Ruta; Juan C. Cisneros; Torsten Liebrect; Linda A. Tsuji; 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.