Present-day massive galaxies are composed mostly of early-type objects. It is unknown whether this was also the case at higher redshifts. In a hierarchical assembling scenario the morphological content of the massive population is expected to change with time from disc-like objects in the early Universe to spheroid-like galaxies at present. In this paper we have probed this theoretical expectation by compiling a large sample of massive (M_stellar_>=10^11^h^-2^_70_M{sun}) galaxies in the redshift interval 0<z10^11^) SDSS (z<0.03) galaxy sample)