English Dictionary

temnospondyl

noun

(biology) Any of many extinct primitive amphibians (labyrinthodonts) of the order Temnospondyli, from the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods.

The temnospondyl was an ancient amphibian that lived during the Carboniferous and Permian periods.

意味（1）

(biology) Any of many extinct primitive amphibians (labyrinthodonts) of the order Temnospondyli, from the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods.

Experts disagree over whether temnospondyls were ancestral to modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders and caecilians), or whether the whole group died out without leaving descendants. Recent studies place a family of temnospondyls called the amphibamids as the closest relatives of modern amphibians.