n (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
Unique Dinosaur Roamed The Desert Of Supercontinent Pangea April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Pangaea , a single supercontinent existing from 300-200 million years ago, dominated the Earth during the Permian era with animal and plant life dispersed broadly across the land. This disbursement is documented by identical fossil species found on multiple modern continents. A new study, from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, supports ...
June 25, 2013 - redOrbit
Ancient, cow-sized knobby lizard discovered in Africa The eccentric animal presided over a lonely desert some 260 million years ago, when Earth was home to a single continent, Pangaea.
June 25, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor