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    co-preserved Glossopteris leaves, probably belonged to non-glossopterid groups, such as voltzialean conifers. The distribution of Glossopteris across several...
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  • of stratified rocks. Later a tractor train visited the base of Mount Glossopteris, where four of the party climbed the mountain and collected samples of...
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    group of seed plants with no close living relatives), most prominently Glossopteris, a tree interpreted as growing in waterlogged soils, which formed extensive...
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  • (Pagodroma nivea) which nest in the weathered sandstone walls of the gorge. Glossopteris Gully (70°51′S 68°6′E / 70.850°S 68.100°E / -70.850; 68.100) is a...
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    Archaeopteris Carboniferous Evolutionary history of plants Fossil Grove Glossopteris Lepidodendrales Lycophytes Lycopsid Stigmaria Sigillaria V. V. Alekhin...
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    Triassic records of the group have been recorded. The best known genus is Glossopteris, a leaf form genus. Other examples are Gangamopteris, Glossotheca, and...
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  • the second-order stratigraphic supersequence called Gondwana I. The Glossopteris flora is characteristic of fossil sequences of the Gondwana supercontinent;...
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    Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other...
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    found in South Africa, India and Antarctica, alongside members of the Glossopteris flora, whose distribution would have ranged from the polar circle to...
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    groups. The southern continent saw extensive seed fern forests of the Glossopteris flora. Oxygen levels were probably high there. The ginkgos and cycads...
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    of their previous contiguous nature also came from the fossil plants Glossopteris and Gangamopteris, and the therapsid or mammal-like reptile Lystrosaurus...
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    forests dominated by seed ferns were prevalent in the late Paleozoic. Glossopteris was the most prominent tree genus in the ancient southern supercontinent...
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    branch or group of branches) surrounded the ovule (e.g. Caytonia or Glossopteris). Ovule orientation may be anatropous, such that when inverted the micropyle...
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    Immediately above the Permian–Triassic boundary the glossopteris flora was suddenly largely displaced by an Australia-wide coniferous flora....
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    It generally refers to reproductive organs, which are associated with Glossopteris leaves. Retallack, G.J.; Dilcher, D.L. (1988). "Reconstructions of selected...
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    area, 150 million years before the break-up of Pangea. The abundance of Glossopteris and Mesosaurus fossils are characteristic of the Gondwanan correlation...
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    Within the tuff of this formation, west facing, fossilized remnants of Glossopteris trees can be seen in the wave cut platform. Reids Mistake Formation consists...
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    extended the range of the Taxales into Gondwanaland. He also described Glossopteris in detail and identified differences between the flora of India and Australia...
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    beginning of the Carboniferous period. Paleontology portal Calamites Glossopteris Lyginopteris Fossilized Roots Are Revealing the Nature of 385-Million-Year-Old...
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    compression fossils of elongate multiovulate reproductive structures adnate to Glossopteris leaves. Permineralized remains identical to Dictyopteridium have been...
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    Cordaites (gymnosperms) and Glossopteris (seed ferns). The severity of plant extinction has been disputed. The Glossopteris-dominated flora that characterised...
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    L. maccaigi may have forced it to rely on the larger members of the Glossopteris flora, which did not survive the end-Permian extinction. Only the 1.5 m...
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    Dinogorgon Dwykaselachus Endothiodon Eunotosaurus Galechirus Glanosuchus Glossopteris Hofmeyria Ictidognathus Ictidosuchoides Lepidodendron Lycosuchus Mesosaurus...
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  • lycophytes, conifers and seeds. These include Gangamopteris, Euryphyllum, Glossopteris, and Samaropsis, The formation also preserves arthropods, including insects...
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  • flora have been retrieved from the formation. Traces on especially the Glossopteris leaves have been interpreted as suction tracks by arthropods. The Carapacha...
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  • parts of the Indian Subcontinent. This area was full of forests that had Glossopteris and Dadoxylon conifer trees with the co-existing giant Sauropods approximately...
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    correlateable from one continent to another. His theory was based upon glossopteris fern fossils occurring in South America, Africa, and India. His explanation...
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  • be found in the fossil record. Glossopteris is an extinct species of seed fern plants from the Permian. Glossopteris appears in the fossil record around...
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  • Gangamopteris is a genus of Carboniferous-Permian plants, very similar to Glossopteris. Previously, it was classified as fern with reproduction by seed. The...
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    extremely conducive to rapid growth in plants such as Glossopteris. The habit in Glossopteris of losing its leaves at the beginning of the bad season...
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