capitosaur

English

Noun

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.