Glossopteris
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Glossopteris is the largest and best-known genus of the extinct Permian order of seed plants known as Glossopteridales. The name Glossopteris refers only to leaves, within the framework of form genera
Glossopteris sp., seed ferns, Permian Triassic Houston Museum of Natural Science DSC01765
Pangaea Glossopteris
Glossopteris sp. Late Permian, Australia. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
Restoration of the environment of the Late Permian Lower Sakamena Formation, Madagascar, with Glossopteris leaves in foreground (along with the lizard-like reptile Thadeosaurus) and trees in background
The Permian–Triassic extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred around the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them
Permian–Triassic boundary at Frazer Beach in New South Wales, with the End Permian extinction event located just above the coal layer
Shell bed with the bivalve Claraia clarai, a common early Triassic disaster taxon
Sessile filter feeders like this Carboniferous crinoid, the mushroom crinoid (Agaricocrinus americanus), were significantly less abundant after the P–Tr extinction.
Lystrosaurus was by far the most abundant early Triassic land vertebrate.