[2] The tetrapod fauna includes temnospondyl amphibians, archosauromorph reptiles, and dicynodonts.

Smaller lenses of calcareous sandstone represent ephemeral streams that branched off from the larger channels that were the source of the floodplain sediments.

[3] The climate of the region during the time is thought to have been monsoonal with both wet and dry seasons.

The discovery of dicynodont fossils in the Pranhita-Godavari Basin in 1964 was one of the earliest indications that the Yerrapalli Formation represented a distinct paleofauna.

During the Middle Triassic, what is now India and southern Africa formed one continuous landmass as part of the supercontinent Gondwana.