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Mesosaurus was significant in providing evidence for the theory of continental drift, because its remains were found in southern Africa and eastern South America, two far away places. As Mesosaurus was a small freshwater organism, and therefore could not have crossed the Atlantic Ocean, this distribution indicated that Africa and South America used to be joined together. Indeed, all the world's continents were joined into one supercontinent called Pangaea in the time Mesosaurus existed.

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What could explainthis distribution of mesosaurus fossils?

The theory of plate tectonics easily explains the distribution of mesosaurus. When mesosaurus was alive, all of the continents were massed together into the supercontinent Pangaea. Therefor, South America and Africa met because there was no Atlantic Ocean, so the distribution of mesosaurus makes complete sense.


How does Continental Drift work?

continental drift is when continents drift. They all formed from pangea, a super continent. Evidence to support this is the fossils of the cynognathus, mesosaurus and the lystrosaurus.


What is wegeners evidence that Pangaea once existed?

He had evidence from Climate- because fossils of plants forming in places without the ideal temperature were found and the same plants found at another place with the right temperature. Fossils- fossils of the reptiles mesosaurus and lystrosaurus found on continents separated by ocean and neither could swim that great of a distance in salt water, and Land Features- Mountain ranges in south America match up with the mountain ranges in Africa, like a jigsaw- puzzle Hope this helps :)


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Mesosaurus was a small lizardlike it could survive only shallow freshwater environments does it seem likely that the animal could traveled between those locations why or why not?

Since the Mesosaurus was a fresh water reptile, there was no way it could've swam across the Atlantic Ocean (which has salt water) to both continents. So that meant Africa and South America were at one point joined together.


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