The glossopterid seed ferns dominated Antarctica and Gondwana during the Permian, which was an important period of transition in seed plant evolution from more archaic Paleozoic forms to those appearing in the Mesozoic. Anatomically preserved ovule-bearing organs of the Glossopteridales occur in a permineralized peat deposit on Skaar Ridge, in the central Transantarctic Mountains. Although multiovulate reproductive structures have been found previously in peat from the Bowen Basin of Australia and from Skaar Ridge, this represents the first report of the cupulate type of reproductive organ, as well as the first evidence of ovules found within the cupules.  The presence of two different types of seed-bearing organs in this group of plants indicates that the group is more diverse than the single leaf morphotype, Glossopteris, would suggest. These data are important in understanding seed plant phylogeny, as well as the relationships within the glossopterids.