A new discovery of Glossopteris in southeastern Mongolia as an argument for distant migration of Gondwanan plants

Well-preserved leaves conforming to the fossil genus Glossopteris are found in the Permian deposits of southeastern Gobi, IChatan-Bulag locality, Mongolia. These leaves have many features in common with Glossopteris commons Feistmantel described from India. The locality Khatan-Bulag belongs to Sulinkheer nappe-fold tectonic megazone. The Glossopteris sp. cf. G. conzmunis specimens from the Khatan-Bulag suggest that there was effective migration gateway between Gondwana and southern regions of Asia in the mid-Permian.