capitosaur

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capitosaur (plural capitosaurs)

  1. Any extinct temnospondyl amphibian of the clade Capitosauria.
    • 2014, Rainer R. Schoch, Amphibian Evolution: The Life of Early Land Vertebrates:
      Capitosaurs had pachyostotic (extraheavy) skeletons and probably lived on the bottom of large water bodies as ambush predators.
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