Plant: Glossopteris browniana
Age: Permian
Locality: Dunedoo, New South Wales, Australia
Size: 14,5 x 13 x 4 cm (5.7 x 5.1 x 1.6 in)
Cut slate with several large Glossopteris leaves. The Strong red hues contrast well with the soft pink of the matrix. The veins in the leaves are very fine and detailed.
Glossopteris was an arboreal seed fern, a paraphyletic group of plant that documented the transition of ferns to seed-bearing plants. It was the namesake for the Glossopteris-Flora, famous for helping to prove the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics. Since these plants grw in such disparate places such as Africa, Auatralia, Antarctica and South America, the theory that they used to be a continuous biome that got broken up was the simplest explanation.
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