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Definition of Labyrinthodonta
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
Definition of Labyrinthodonta
1. n. pl. An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
Medical Definition of Labyrinthodonta
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Labyrinthodonta
Literary usage of Labyrinthodonta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... OB THE labyrinthodonta are scale-covered batrachians which, as already stated,
are wholly extinct. They are known only by their fossil remains. ..."
2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"This is a very curious circumstance, and requires elucidation by the study of
development. Among the labyrinthodonta, the atlas of ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Later, when a great variety of related remains had been discovered, the term
labyrinthodonta, which relates to the curious "labyrinthine" infoldings of the ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The scale-covered Amphibians, called labyrinthodonta, which first appeared in
the Carboniferous age, had gigantic species in the Triassic, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... even although it be true that the labyrinthodonta do not all possess the dental
structure on which the name was founded ; though there is reason to ..."
6. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"... an enormous development of reptile life stamps this middle period. The Trias
as yet possesses no true Teleostei. The labyrinthodonta still predominate; ..."
7. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"IL labyrinthodonta. B. Tail obsolete in the adult. ... Many of the extinct
labyrinthodonta, and probably the whole of the members of that group, ..."
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