Stegocephalia

plural noun

Stego·​ce·​pha·​lia

in some especially former classifications

: an order or other division of Amphibia comprising all the pre-Jurassic and many later extinct typically tailed and salamandriform amphibians usually with well-developed limbs and sometimes of large size compare labyrinthodontia, lissamphibia

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from steg- + Greek kephalē head + New Latin -ia

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