Additional fragmentary remains from Madagascar may represent an even earlier sauropodomorph from the middle Triassic.

The remains were found in Brazil and are dated to the middle Triassic.

Nanchangosaurus was a large aquatic reptile native to the middle Triassic of China.

Fossils reveal a date of middle Triassic.

Then, in the early and middle Triassic, there was rapid evolution into the types of land reptile which dominated the rest of the Mesozoic era.

In the early to middle Triassic, some archosaur groups developed hip joints which allowed (or required) a more erect gait.

This was an extaordinary turn-around, for in the middle Triassic the ancestors of mammals, the Synapsids, were still dominant.

Ceresiosaurus lived during the Anisian stage of the middle Triassic.

The earliest forms like Placodus, which lived in the early to middle Triassic, looked rather barrel-shaped.

The Gnanthorhizidae are an extinct family of lungfish that lived from the late Carboniferous until the middle Triassic.