• 4. Glossopteris

  • Jun 20 2023
  • Length: 45 mins
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  • Summary

  • Introducing Glossopteris! A prolific fossil plant from the swamps of the southern supercontinent, Gondwana during the Permian period.

    We hear from Dr Anne-Marie Tosolini, a palaeontologist and palaeobotanist about this incredible fossil, and how Glossopteris helped piece together the theory of plate tectonics.

    Plus info on some interesting scrape marks made by dancing theropod dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Colorado.

    Links
    Theropod courtship: large scale physical evidence of display arenas and avian-like scrape ceremony behaviour by Cretaceous dinosaurs

    Mysterious footprint fossils point to dancing dinosaur mating ritual

    Anatomically preserved Glossopteris stems with attached leaves from the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

    Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour



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