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jan 9, 1858 - Antonio Snider Pelligrini found similar plants and fossils on two different continents.

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Pelligrini realized that plant fossils found in coal beds in Europe were the same as plants fossils found in coal beds in North America, where the continents fit together.

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jan 9, 1858
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~ 168 years ago

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