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Over Canada, Over Canada

The sun sets low.

I should have fallen asleep long ago

Why can’t I sleep?

The sky over Canada is blue

Between birches – slanting rains.

Although it looks like Russia,

Only still not Russia.

These words from the famous song of Alexander Gorodnitsky emphasize the fact of the amazing similarity of flora and fauna, separated by the oceans of eastern North America and Europe. Based on this fact, Alfred Wegener wrote in the book «The Origin of the Continents and Oceans»: «North America used to be close to Europe. Starting from Newfoundland, located close to Ireland, and further north, it was a single block with it and with Greenland».

This was emphasized by the fact that: «The consequences of the rupture of a single faunistic region should have been especially pronounced in North America and Europe, because the rupture occurred relatively late, and paleontological data are correspondingly numerous. In addition, these areas are especially well studied.

Birch trees. Canada

Birch trees. Russia

Moreover, the existing ones Due to the short time of isolation, the forms have probably not yet developed very divergingly. Indeed, we find such a correspondence that there is nothing better to wish for. So, in the Eocene we find almost everything suborders mammals in North America and also in Europe.

Similar distribution features are characteristic of other classes of animals.

The boundaries of the spread of continental ice in the Quaternary period. For the time before the complete separation of North America from Europe. According to A. Wegener.

A young family of earthworms (Lumbricidae) is distributed from Japan to Spain, and on the other side of the ocean – only in the eastern United States. Barley is found on the edges of the former contact of the continents in Ireland and Newfoundland and in areas adjacent to these islands on both sides. The percidae family and other freshwater fish are found in Europe and Asia, and in North America only in the eastern part.

Pearl Oyster Newfoundland

Pearl Oyster of Europe

Calluna uulgaris Newfoundland

Calluna uulgaris of Europe

Probably, one should also call the common heather (Calluna uulgaris), which is found in addition to Europe only on the island of Newfoundland and in the areas bordering it.

On the other hand, the distribution of a significant number of American plants is limited in Europe to the western part of Ireland. Although it is possible that the latter can be explained by the influence of the Gulf Stream; with regard to heather, such an explanation cannot be accepted. Especially noteworthy is the spread of field slugs from southern Germany through the British Isles, Iceland and Greenland all the way to the American side, where it, however, is found only on Labrador, Newfoundland.

Field slug spread

V. A. Yashnov in his work on crustaceans of Novaya Zemlya indicates that the current distribution of freshwater crayfish is best explained by the theory of drift: «With high probability we can say that in hydrobiology many issues of the distribution of lower aquatic organisms, at least Hemispheres can be solved on the basis of the principles of the theory of movement of continents.As an example, we mention the modern scattered distribution of Limnocalanus macrurus, for which passive movement (by wind and birds) due to lack of «at the stages of dormancy.

In the presence of a combination of both continents, according to Wegener’s theory, the distribution range of these species becomes relatively small.»

What could be the reason for the division of the continent?