Gondwana formation and Glossopteris flora
Formación de Gondwana y flora de Glossopteris
- Date
- 1872 · confidence high
- Place
- Geological Survey of India, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India
- Credited to
- Henry B. Medlicott and Ottokar Feistmantel
- People
- 👤 Ottokar Feistmantel1848–1891
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Geologists in India defined 'Gondwana' (after the Gond region) as a rock sequence with coal and Glossopteris fossils that was later also found in Africa, South America and Australia. That coincidence led Suess to propose the continent of Gondwana (1885).
What it led to
- land-bridge hypotheses
- palaeontological arguments for continental drift