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'Almost identical' dinosaur footprints found in Brazil and Central Africa may prove supercontinent
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More than 260 dinosaur footprints discovered in Brazil and Cameroon provide further evidence that South America and Africa were once connected as part of a giant continent millions of years ago, according to a recent study.

“We determined that in terms of age, these footprints were similar,” said SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs, who led the study. “In their geological and plate tectonic contexts, they were also similar. In terms of their shapes, they are almost identical.” “One of the youngest and narrowest geological connections between Africa and South America was the elbow of northeastern Brazil nestled against what is now the coast of Cameroon along the Gulf of Guinea,” Jacobs said. “The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it.”Theropod footprints were found in from Sousa Basin, Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil and in the Koum Basin in Cameroon .

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