The Pranhita–Godavari (P–G) basin of central India has yielded Early, Middle and Late Triassic temnospondyl families. Bracyops laticeps, the type for the family Brachyopidae was first described from the Lower Triassic ‘Mangli Beds’ of the northernmost extension of the P–G basin. In the northern and central parts of the P–G basin itself, the Middle Triassic Yerrapalli Formation has Stanocephalosaurus rajareddyi, a paracyclotosaurid, and the Upper Triassic Maleri Formation has Buettneria maleriensis, a metoposaurid and two other chigutisaurid taxa, Compsocerops cosgriffi and Kuttycephalus triangularis. A critical review of Triassic temnospondyls of the P–G basin indicates that the affinities of S. rajareddyi and K. triangularis are somewhat uncertain and discovery of further material is necessary to establish their relationships among similar temnospondyls of the world. It is also noted that B. maleriensis is displaced by the two chigutisaurid genera and species at the Carnian–Norian boundary. Thus, P–G basin is unique in having Pangaean metoposaurids and exclusively Gondwanan chigutisaurids in successive faunal zones within the same formation. Significantly, the end of Carnian is marked by the demise of metoposaurids in India as well as in Africa and Europe. In North America, their size appears to have diminished during that time.