During the Triassic, Batrachia diverged into ancestors of frogs (Salientia) and salamanders (Caudata). Fossils Triassic batrachians are rare found only in a few outcrops, such as Middle Sakamena Formation Madagascar (Induan). Only three taxa have been described, two early Triadobatrachus Czatkiobatrachus salamander Triassurus. Here we describe right ilium, collected 1991, attributed to first ba...

The Molteno, Elliot, and Clarens formations comprise the continental Stormberg Group of the Karoo Basin of South Africa and Lesotho. The Molteno Formation contains a well preserved macroand microfloral assemblage but apparently no vertebrates; the Elliot and Clarens formations contain abundant vertebrates but virtually no floral remains. The vertebrate taxa represented by skeletal remains are l...