In a single bone bed, at least 700 cranial and postcranial elements amounting to more than 23 monotypic individuals of varying age were excavated.

[1] A taphonomic study of the bone assemblage reveals that a herd of Wadiasaurus, including some juveniles and young animals, were trapped in the soft muds of a floodplain and buried in a small area.

[1][7] The bones were disarticulated and dissociated, which indicates some form of post mortem disturbance, though there was no evidence of any transportation from a great distance (no sign of rolling, abrasion, or maceration).

[1] The skull roof is comparatively narrow and flat but the snout is curved downward anteriorly and descends laterally (almost vertically) to form the maxillary flanges.

[1] The occiput faces sharply downward and backward, thus making an acute angle with the rest of the skull, and is characterized by a broad wing-like squamosal.

[1] The scapular blade of Wadiasaurus is long, narrow, and slender, and with the coracoid plate it form an outward, open-notched glenoid fossa that faces caudolaterally with sharply defined upper and lower lips.

[9] A triangular, raised trochlea continues on the dorsal surface which suggests greater ulnar extension compared to related dicynodonts.

The dorsal edge of the iliac blade is highly convex, smooth, and asymmetric, and its caudal end is almost at a 45-degree angle to the horizontal plane.

[1] Caudally the pubis meets the ischium in a straight suture, which is interrupted dorsally by a median, large, circular obturator foramen.

This differs from the condition seen in the Permian digging dicynodonts such as Diictodon and Cistecephalus, which have wide, flat zygapophyses of the presacral vertebrae, allowing them to undulate laterally.

[1] The caudal vertebrae suggest that Wadiasaurus had a cylindrically thick but short tail which dropped down and terminated at a point.

[1] The long cervical neural spines of Wadiasaurus provided extensive anchorage for the nuchal ligament and neck muscles as in extant hoofed mammals, such as horses.

[1] The occurrence of such a large number of both of juvenile and adult individuals of a single species in such a small area raises the possibility of the existence of a herd of animals which were buried in the locality under one catastrophic event.

Previous excavations of Wadiasaurus have yielded solitary specimens, which had comparatively thicker snout regions and a prominent median ridge on the ventral side of the lower jaw.

[1] In further support of this, some maxillae collected from the group in the Yerrapalli formation had no traces of a tooth bud, which suggests that the tusk of Wadiasaurus was characteristic of males and connected to display and mate recognition.

[8] During the adult stage, growth slowed down considerably as evidenced by the presence of peripheral parallel fibered bone, decrease in vascularity towards the periosteal periphery, and more organized arrangement of the osteocyte lacunnae.

All of these growth marks suggest a high degree of developmental plasticity[15] in Wadiasaurus, meaning they had the ability to respond to changes in the environment (temperature fluctuations or resource abundance for example), by evoking different developmental/growth timelines.

Adverse environmental conditions were a likely contributing factor to the bone growth patterns seen, since in the Triassic period, the Pranhita-Godavari basin had a hot, semi-arid climate with strongly seasonal rainfall.

[1] The broad diagnostic features of the Kannemeyeriidae family are: (i) large dicynodonts; (ii) moderately elongated snout with a strong median ridge in some genera; (iii) anteriorly placed jaw articulation; (iv) oblique occiput; and (v) the length of the palate is less than 90% of the dorsal length of the skull.

[1] These features specifically place Wadiasaurus in the family Kannemeyeriidae since the snout is about 44% of the skull length[1] (it should not exceed 47% of the skull length[20]); the snout is elongated and tapers anteriorly but does not end in a point as in Kannemeyeria, and of the postcranial characters, the scapula is tall and narrow with an anteriorly directed acromion, and there is a separately ossified olecranon process on the ulna.