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Marsupials are found only in North and South America and in the Australian region. Their distribution is a result of the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea into Gondwana and Laurasia 120 mya. The modern distribution of marsupials is therefore a result of the effect of ________.

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Continental drift.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • The marsupials are mammals, they are nocturnal and they live in the canopy of the forest s and have broad diets. Most of the marsupials as diversity in the Australian continents that were geographically isolated.
  • There dispersal and distribution is a result of the formation and deformation of landmasses at the time of the supercontinent of Pangea, into Gondwana and Laurasia.
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