stegocephalian
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English
Etymology
From Stegocephalia + -an.
Noun
stegocephalian (plural stegocephalians)
- (zoology) Any amphibian of the clade Stegocephalia.
- 2012, Sebastien Steyer, Earth Before the Dinosaurs, page 61:
- Batrachomorphs comprise the stegocephalians more closely related to lissamphibians than are other stegocephalians, as well as the lissamphibians themselves.