Q. Which of the following regions were included in the supercontinent "Gondwanaland" during the Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic Era along with India?
Answer: Africa, South America, Australia
Notes: The term Gondwanaland was coined by geologist Eduard Suess after the forested, gondwana regions of India where the fossilized evidence of this megacontinent was first found. Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift suggests that about 280 million years ago, our globe's landmass was a single supercontinent called Pangea. Pangea split roughly 200 million years ago into two landmasses known as Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Gondwanaland comprised Antarctica, South America, Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and the Indian subcontinent which have now moved into the Northern Hemisphere.