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∙ 10y agoMesosaurus was an aquatic reptile that lived between 299 and 280 million years ago in what is now South America and Africa. Evidence suggests that at least some of them lived in a hypersaline environment rather than a usual oceanic or freshwater habitat.
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∙ 13y ago260 million years ago..pangaea reassembled proves it
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∙ 13y agoThey have been extinct for 280 million.
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What biome did a mesosaurus live in?
The Mesosaurus lived in Antarctica back 100 million to 200 million years ago : )
What we're land Bridges used as an explanation for?
Mesosaurus fossils
Explain this 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.
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.
What did the mesosaurus eat?
Mesosaurus was one of the first marine reptiles. It had numerous thin teeth that weren't adept to catch fish. It is believed that mesosaurus ate plankton.
What is the geographic distribution of the swimming reptile Mesosaurus provides evidence?
The geographic distribution of the swimming reptile Mesosaurus provides evidence that supports continental drift. Fossils belonging to the Mesosaurus were found far away from each other, in both South Africa and South America.
What were land bridges used explanation for?
Mesosaurus fossils
Used to by Wegner to establish continental drift?
Mesosaurus Fossils
When did the Mesosaurus- become extinct?
The mesosaurus become extinct about 300 million years ago. This was a type of reptile that looked like a lizard and was the first reptile to go back to aquatic environments.
Why these freshwater mesosaurus fossils are found today in some rock layer in both south America and Africa?
because the two continents were originally joined (Gondwana land) and as such share common fossil ancestors
Does the case of mesosaurus support wegeners theory of continental drift?
yes it does.
What was used to by Wegner to establish continental drift?
Mesosaurus fossils
