Triassic of Australia On the shores of a lake, the trees in the distance are gymnosperms (species of Araucarias trees). On the foreshore are some small palm-like trees, the Lycopods (Pleuromeia longicaulis). Other plants are equisetums (by the water), the fern-like leaves of the seed fern: Dicroidium with characteristic bifurcating branching stems. The strange looking pig-sized herbivore, a Dicynodont, grazes on some plants. Dicynodonts (mammal-like therapsids) were very widespread in the late Permian and were found worldwide. Some of them survived through the Triassic (some species even continued to the Cretaceous in southern Gondswana). Fossils of them are rare in there, but it has been confirmed recently that they did live in Australia through to the Triassic. A Clatrotitan andersoni resting on young gymnosperm shoot at bottom left and in flight had a wing span of 30cm. A female scorpionfly, with its characteristic long mouthparts, rests on a Dicrodium leaf on the right. At the top left a fly (Diptera) hangs under a leaf, ready to take to the air. These flies were closely related to small crane flies: Tipulomorpha: Limoniinae.