capitosaur
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Noun edit
capitosaur (plural capitosaurs)
- 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.