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seymouriamorph|siːˈmɔərɪəmɔːf| [a. mod.L. name of suborder Seymouriamorpha, f. generic name Seymouria (F. Broili 1904, in Palæontographica LI. 81), f. Seymour name of a town in Baylor County, Texas + -ia1.] A fossil tetrapod belonging to the suborder Seymouriamorpha, considered to include transitional forms between amphibians and reptiles.
1945A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. (ed. 2) xxvii. 527 The degenerate genus Kotlassia represented the seymouriamorphs in the late Permian. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 269 The terrestrial anthracosaurs, known as seymouriamorphs, include the only large terrestrial amphibians known. |