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Definition of Stereospondyli
1. Noun. Formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece. "Most vertebrates are stereospondylous"
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Labyrinthodonta, Labyrinthodontia, Superorder Labyrinthodonta, Superorder Labyrinthodontia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stereospondyli
Literary usage of Stereospondyli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... curious "labyrinthine" infoldings of the enamel-wall of the teeth, was restricted
to a single group or suborder (also called stereospondyli) within the ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1916)
"... so that the operculum may have given rise to the tympanic membrane of
stereospondyli, which had the locus of the operculum mid was in contact with the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... curious "labyrinthine" infoldings of the enamel-wall of the teeth, was restricted
to a single group or suborder (also called stereospondyli) within the ..."
4. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"Anterior nares far forwards. Teeth acutely conical, vertically grooved. Trias ;
Australia and South Africa. Sub-Order D. stereospondyli. Zittel. ..."