capitosaur

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noun

Any extinct temnospondyl amphibian of the clade Capitosauria.

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Meanings

nouncapitosaur (plural capitosaurs)

plural capitosaurs

  1. Any extinct temnospondyl amphibian of the clade Capitosauria.

    Capitosaurs had pachyostotic (extraheavy) skeletons and probably lived on the bottom of large water bodies as ambush predators.

    2014, Rainer R. Schoch, Amphibian Evolution: The Life of Early Land Vertebrates
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