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n. - Extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth.

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  • They form, however, an order by themselves, to which the term Labyrinthodonta has been applied, and thus our search into the past has brought us a rich and important...
  • The name Labyrinthodonta was bestowed upon the great fossil group on account of the beautiful and singularly complex structure of the teeth of some members of the order.
  • Nevertheless the degree of development of the tail constitutes a marked distinction between the Labyrinthodonta and the Ophiomorpha.
  • The order Labyrinthodonta recalls to mind, as as has been said earlier, the Crocodilia amongst reptiles, of which they may be deemed as the prophetic precursors, so to...
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