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Labyrinthodon

Labyrinthodon \Lab`y*rin"tho*don\, n. [Gr. laby`rinthos labyrinth + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

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labyrinthodon

n. (context paleontology English) (alternative form of labyrinthodont English)

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I have been to other lands, discovered a new race of humans within Pellucidar, seen the Mahars at their worship in their hidden temple, and barely escaped with my life from them and from a great labyrinthodon that I met afterward, following my long and tedious wanderings across an unknown world.