[1] Metoposaurids can be distinguished from the very similar mastodonsauroids by the position of their eyes, placed far forward on the snout.

Many individuals would have died in one area, creating a dense bone bed once fossilized.

[2] Recent sedimentological studies suggest that the mass accumulations were not the result of droughts, but of river currents carrying remains.

Most skeletons in these accumulations are disarticulated, suggesting they were transported by water to the deposition sites.

The large gatherings of metoposaurids may have been breeding sites, and were probably common across floodplains in Late Triassic Pangaea.