which fossil occurs on the most landmasses? What does this suggest about when these particular continents broke up
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The Glossopteridales (Glossopteris fossils) occur on the most landmasses. Their distribution across several detached landmasses led scientists to believe that these were once merged into a single supercontinent
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The fossils of Glossopteridales occur on most landmasses.
- Glossopteridales are extinct species of seed ferns that belonged to the order Pteridospermatophyta.
- The uniform and symmetrical distribution of Glossopteridales fossils suggest that the continents were earlier a single landmass.
- This single huge landmass called a supercontinent has been named Pangaea.
- Slowly, due to tectonic plate movements and continental drift, Pangaea broke into supercontinents Gondwana and Laurasia.
- These further divided into the 7 continental plates we see today.
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