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Figure 2.2Fossils of the freshwater reptile Mesosaurus, 300 million years old, are found in South America and Africa and nowhere else in the world. If Mesosaurus were able to swim across the South Atlantic Ocean, it should have been able to cross other oceans and should have spread more widely. The observation that it did not suggests that South America and Africa must have been joined about 300 million years ago.