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from The Century Dictionary.
- In a general sense, the Stegocephalia considered as a distinct class apart from Amphibia; in a more restricted sense, the genera Eryops and Cricotus, with their allies, considered as forming a subclass: practically the Temnospondyli of Zittel.
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The formation of a large food-yelk followed again in the stem-forms of the amniotes, the protamniotes or proreptilia, descended from the amphibia (Figure 1.119 D).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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