Information about Millerettidae

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FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses

• Anapsida
• Diapsida
  

Synonyms

• Reptilia Laurenti, 1768

Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Captorhinida *

Families

• Bolosauridae
• Captorhinidae
• Millerettidae
• Protorothyrididae
  

Captorhinida is a doubly paraphyletic grouping of early reptiles, traditionally composed of the following families:

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Milleretta

Binomial name
M. rubidgei

Milleretta was a small, fast-moving reptile that lived in the late Permian period of South Africa, 250 million years ago, at the Oberperm site.
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extinction is the cessation of existence of a species or group of taxa, reducing biodiversity. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species (although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point).
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Anapsida
Osborn, 1903

Orders

Testudines (Turtles, tortoises & terrapins)
Mesosauria - extinct
Millerettidae - extinct
Nyctiphruretidae - extinct
Pareiasauridae - extinct
Procolophonidae - extinct
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Permian is a geologic period that extends from about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma to 251.0 ± 0.4 Ma (million years before the present; ICS 2004). It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era.
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insectivore is a carnivore with a diet that consists chiefly of insects and similar small creatures.

Although individually small, insects exist in enormous numbers and make up a very large part of the animal biomass in almost all non-marine environments.
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Lacertilia*
Günther, 1867

Families

Many, see text.

Lizards are reptiles of the order Squamata, normally possessing four legs, external ear openings and movable eyelids.
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