Antonio Snider-Pellegrini

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In 1858, Snider-Pellegrini made these two maps. They depict his interpretation of how the American and African continents may once have fit together before subsequently becoming separated.

Antonio Snider-Pellegrini was a nineteenth century French geographer and scientist who theorized about the possibility of continental drift, anticipating Wegener's theories concerning Pangaea by several decades.

In 1858, Snider-Pellegrini published in Paris his book, La Création et ses mystères dévoilés ("Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled"). He proposed that all of the continents were once connected together during the Pennsylvanian Period. He based this theory on the fact that he had found plant fossils in both Europe and the United States that were identical.

Snider-Pellegrini also believed that it was the Great Flood of the Bible that had caused the fragmentation of the supercontinent.[1]