Rocks of the Elliot Formation and its regional equivalents in southern Africa, which straddle the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, have traditionally been regarded as the earliest dinosaur-bearing sediments in this region. The identification of tridactyl Grallator-like tracks at a site in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, and the discovery of an isolated fragment of a prosauropod femur in the central Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, both in rocks assigned to equivalents of the underlying Molteno Formation on stratigraphic and palaeobotanical grounds, indicate the presence of an earlier dinosaurian fauna. These traces constitute the earliest known evidence of dinosaurs in this region of Central Gondwana.