Abstract
The Glossopteridales was a distinctive order of gymnospermous seed-plants that occurred widely in the Permian of Gondwana. Some authors have suggested that they may also have occurred in the Triassic and so had survived the catastrophic Permian – Triassic extinction event. This suggestion was mainly based on records from peninsular India such as from the Panchet Formation, which traditionally was regarded as Triassic in age. This paper reviews the evidence for a Triassic age for these floras and it is argued that they are in fact late Permian. There is no clear evidence that the Glossopteridales survived the P/T biotic crisis in India and only unequivocal evidence is in China that they survived into the Triassic.
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