on what continent did dinosaurs first appear?

Answer 1

It is said that when dinosaurs first appeared, the Earth was made up of one big continent. All the landmasses were joined together. This big continent is known as Pangaea.As time went by, Pangaea gradually broke apart into the landmasses we know today. First it separated into a northern and a southern continent. The southern continent, which included Australia, was known as Gondwana. During the Cretaceous Period, Gondwana gradually broke up into the present landmasses of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica, and Australia. Antarctica and Australia were the last continents to separate, starting about 100 million years ago.

The Antarctic was at the Earth's equator during the Cambrian period, roughly 500 million years ago. As the continents drifted atop the more liquid interior layers of the Earth, the Antarctic drifted south during the time of the dinosaurs (the Mesozoic Era) when it was attached to Australia. During that time, it had no glaciers, and housed many animals, including some dinosaurs. Over the millennia, Antarctica drifted farther south, separated completely from Australia, and is now located at the South Pole of the Earth. The fossils of first dinosaur were said to be found in Antartica.

Paleontologists in Brazil reported of finding the oldest dinosaur so if that is the case, the first dinosaur could have first appeared in South America.

Based on what has been described that the earth was just one continent, who will know which present continent it first appeared? It appeared and moved from here to there so fossils discovery in a certain place do not tell that such dinosaurs appeared in there as they were not confined in specific place.☺

Answer 2

Dinosaurs First Appeared

Answer 3

When dinosaurs first appeared, the Earth was made up of one big continent. All the landmasses were joined together. This big continent is known as Pangaea.

As time went by, Pangaea gradually broke apart into the landmasses we know today. First it separated into a northern and a southern continent.

The southern continent, which included Australia, was known as Gondwana.

During the Cretaceous Period, Gondwana gradually broke up into the present landmasses of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica, and Australia. Antarctica and Australia were the last continents to separate, starting about 100 million years ago.

Answer 4

Pangea is your correct answer.
The oldest dinosaur types are known from rocks in Argentina and Brazil and are about 230 million years old.
If, Pangea did indeed split in the time mentioned above then the Dinosaurs would have been on that 'only' continent 230 million years ago.

Answer 5

On the continent of Pangea (or Pangaea), which was composed of virtually all land on earth from the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic Era to the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic Era.

The Mesozoic is commonly called "The Age of Reptiles" or "Age of Dinosaurs" and the Jurassic is the second of its three periods, the others being the Triassic and the Cretaceous.

Answer 6

Dinosaurs first appeared on Gondwana, the southern continnent of the former Pangea Super Continent.

Source:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic/triassic/

Answer 7

Pangea. At that time, there was only one supercontinent, dinosaur appeared before it broke down into the continent we now know, 180 million years ago.

Answer 8

As of now, the oldest fossils have been found in Africa.