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Definition of Labyrinthodontia
1. Noun. Extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Amphibia, Class Amphibia
Member holonyms: Labyrinthodont, Order Stereospondyli, Stereospondyli, Order Temnospondyli, Temnospondyli
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labyrinthodontia
Literary usage of Labyrinthodontia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their by Richard Owen (1861)
"... to the life-sustaining power of the atmosphere in the oldest division of the
geological periods of the history of the earth. Order II.—Labyrinthodontia. ..."
2. The Geological Evidence of Evolution by Angelo Heilprin (1888)
"of the Labyrinthodontia. Now it is a surprising circumstance that many of the
most ancient fishes, or those which preceded the ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1870)
"From a geological point of view by far the most important of the Amphibia are
the Labyrinthodontia, the distribution of which has just been spoken of. ..."
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