Pangaea

For other uses, see Pangaea (disambiguation).
"Pangaia" redirects here. For the Southeast Asian (and later African) native warships, see Penjajap.

The supercontinent Pangaea in the early Mesozoic (at 200 Ma)

Pangaea or Pangea (/pænˈdʒiːə/ pan-JEE-ə)[1] was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.[2] It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous 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.[3] Pangaea was C-shaped, with the bulk of its mass stretching between Earth's northern and southern polar regions and surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa and the Paleo-Tethys and subsequent Tethys Oceans. Pangaea is the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists.

  1. ^ "Pangaea". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020.
  2. ^ "Pangea". Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2015.
  3. ^ Rogers, J.J.W.; Santosh, M. (2004), Continents and Supercontinents, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 146, ISBN 978-0-19-516589-0