labyrinthine

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Creatures like the labyrinthodonts, the continental drifters argue, would not have evolved separately on such isolated continents as Antarctica and Australia.

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Although the stapes and otic region are readily visible in a number of labyrinthodonts and lepospondyls, no indication of an operculum seems to be reported among them.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

Salamander-like larvae of labyrinthodonts are well known, especially those formerly supposed to comprise the order Branchiosauria.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

Along the banks of the stream and in its pools lived a variety of microsaurs, captorhinids, small labyrinthodonts and small pelycosaurs.

From Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma by Fox, Richard C.

The Anura probably originated among temnospondylous labyrinthodonts, through a line represented approximately by Eugyrinus, Amphibamus, and the Triassic frog Protobatrachus, as shown by Watson, Piveteau and others.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)