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Pangaea
thumb|270x270px|Map of Pangaea around 250 million years ago, at the beginning of the Triassic
Pangaea or Pangea ( ) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous period approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic and beginning of the Jurassic. Pangaea was C-shaped, with the bulk of its mass stretching between Earth's northern and southern polar regions and surrounded by the s
Paleo-Tethys Ocean
ocean on the margin of Gondwana between the Middle Cambrian and Late Triassic
Cimmeria
ancient string of microcontinents that rifted from Gondwana
Central Pangean Mountains
major feature of the supercontinent
Intermontane Islands
chain of active volcanic islands somewhere in the Pacific Ocean during the Triassic