''Millerosaurus'' is an
extinct
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genus of
millerettid parareptile from the
Late Permian (
Changhsingian stage) of
South Africa.
It was a small animal which reached a length of 30 cm.
Unlike many other
parareptiles, it had holes (
fenestrae
A fenestra (fenestration; plural fenestrae or fenestrations) is any small opening or pore, commonly used as a term in the biological sciences. It is the Latin word for "window", and is used in various fields to describe a pore in an anatomical st ...
) behind the eyesockets in the skull. It had a slabsided body, a long tail, and a narrow but triangular skull (about 2 inches long) with large eyes, and is thought to have been
insectivorous
A robber fly eating a hoverfly
An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects.
The first vertebrate insectivores were ...
.
References
Parareptiles
Permian reptiles of Africa
Prehistoric reptile genera
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