labyrinthodont

NOUN
  1. an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia
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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.
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