How To Use labyrinthodont In A Sentence
- It is thought that in other parts of the world competition from crocodiles wiped out most labyrinthodont species.
- Two main types of early amphibians include the large powerfully built labyrinthodonts and the small, slender lepospondyls.
- Then in the seventies an almost complete fossil of another labyrinthodont turned up in rocks that were definitely much younger than 250 million years old.
- Whether it was a labyrinthodont amphibian or a primitive reptile has been much disputed.
- Among Vertebrates there is no ordinally distinct fossil fish: there is only one extinct order of Amphibia — the Labyrinthodonts; but there are at least four distinct orders of Reptilia, viz. the Ichthyosauria, Essays
- The labyrinthodonts, parareptiles and theromorphs were among the most ancient tetrapods.
- All of these Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic amphibians are called labyrinthodonts and lepospondyls, based on features of their teeth and vertebrae.
- Curiously, labyrinthodonts are not found in the Otways - crocodiles apparently filled the same ecological niche.
- On land there was a major faunal turnover in which labyrinthodont amphibians, early reptile groups, and mammal-like reptiles died out and were replaced by archosaurs, lepidosaurs, and mammals.
- Finding labyrinthodont amphibian vertebrae and lungfish teeth, we took several bags of matrix to wash.