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Fossils of Cro-Magnon man were first discovered in 1868 from Magnon rocks by Louis Lartet. These rocks are in

A

Shivalik-Hills-India

B

Neader-Valley-Germany

C

Africa

D

France.

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D

Pangaea (= Pangea). Single land mass or supercontinent present prior to 250 million years as proposed by Wegener (1912). The remaining part of earth was covered by Panthalassa ocean.
About 2000 million years ago, Pangaea broke up into two continents, northern Laurasia and southern Gondwanaland, Laurasia later formed North America, Greenalnd, Europe and Asia. It is believed that North America separated from Europe about 100 million years ago. Gondwanaland fragmented to form South America, Antarctica, Australia, Africa and India.
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