Question

Fossil remains of Glossopteris (an extinct plant with large leaves) have been discovered in India and Australia. When they were living, all the Glossopteris were located together on land, but now the Glossopteris fossils are separated by an ocean. What could explain how these fossils got so far apart?

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A: India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates slowly moved apart as new plates from underneath got added between them over millions of years.
B: India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates slowly moved far apart as soft, solid rock from underneath got added to the edges of the plates over millions of years.
C: India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates floated away from each other across the ocean.
D: India and Australia are parts of different plates. The plates were sometimes pushed far apart by earthquakes, and soft, solid rock from underneath got added to the edges of the plates.

Answer 1

The fossil remains of Lystrosaurus who is an extinct four-legged animal discovered in South Africa and India ( even though these animals lived together and did not posses the ability to swim) indicates that:

the correct answer is letter A. True.

The South Africa and India are a part of different plates that separated with time.

These plates moved apart from each other slowly as soft rocks started forming along the edges of these plates pushing these two further apart.

Hence, the different locations of the fossil can be explained using the moving apart of the plates.

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