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The name "Glossopteris" means tongue-fern, referring to the tongue-shaped leaves they possessed. They were probably trees or large shrubs with robust conifer-like wood, similar to the Araucariaceae. These trees were restricted to the middle- and high-latitude parts of Gondwana, and an important contributor to the Permian coal deposits.
Nov 10, 2023 · 1. Glossopteris Refers Specifically to the Leaves. The name comes from the Latin words “gloss (o),” which means tongue, and “pteris,” which means fern. The name reflects the appearance of the leaves, which are tongue-shaped and part of a plant in the fern family. The leaves had reticulate venation, a web-like pattern of interconnected ...
Mar 24, 2024 · A rich collection of plant megafossils has been studied from the Late Permian Gondwana sediments of the Lower Kamthi Formation, Talcher Basin, Odisha. The fossiliferous horizon was explored along the road section (N 20° 58′ 40″ latitude and E 84° 42′ 36″ longitude) of Hinjrida Ghati near Handapa, Angul District, Odisha. The compact, finely grained, pinkish-brown shale contains the ...
May 1, 2016 · The large size of glossopterid trees is suggested by that of tree trunks assigned to Dadoxylon sp. from the Raniganj Stage where Glossopteris is the commonest fossil and the genus Noeggerathiopsis ...
Glossopteridales is an extinct order of seed plants, known from the Permian of Gondwana. They arose at the beginning of the Permian , and the majority or all members of the group became extinct at the end of the Permian (251.9 mya), during the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Possible Triassic records of the group have been recorded. [1]
Dec 29, 2022 · similar to Glossopteris recurva (Maithy 1965) Pant et Singh 1974, but the scale leaf of S. sunii is a petiolate leaf attached by fertile organs, while G. r ecurva is a
Glossopteris. Glossopteris browniana fossil in the Artis zoo, Amsterdam. Glossopteris [1] is the largest and best-known genus of the extinct seed ferns. They were typical plants of the coal forests or coal swamps which lasted from the Pennsylvanian (later Carboniferous) to the end of the Permian . The coal swamps were world-wide because, for ...
