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Cambrian paleogeography

Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the Late Carboniferous. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are cold and warm ocean currents. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown in the inset.

Pangea: Late Jurassic Period

A series of four world maps showing the progression of continental drift over time. The maps illustrate the supercontinent Pangaea 225 million years ago, its breakup into Laurasia and Gondwana 150 million years ago, the further separation of continents 100 million years ago, and the current arrangement of continents on Earth today. Continents are labeled in each map.

Devonian paleogeography

Silurian paleogeography

Pangea: Early Triassic Period

Triassic paleogeography

Cambrian paleogeography

Carboniferous paleogeography

Gondwana: References & Edit History

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Australian Geographic - Gondwanaland: the search for a land before (human) time.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 05, 2026
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Laurasian migration explains Gondwanan disjunctions: Evidence from Malpighiaceae.	Gloria Lotha	May 01, 2026
	Add new Web site: PNAS - Laurasian migration explains Gondwanan disjunctions: Evidence from Malpighiaceae.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 20, 2026
	Add new Web site: Lyell Collection - Antarctica and supercontinent evolution: historical perspectives, recent advances and unresolved issues.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 12, 2025
	Add new Web site: Australian Geographic - Gondwanaland: the search for a land before (human) time.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - The breakup history of Gondwana and its impact on pre-Cenozoic floristic provincialism.	Grace Young	Jul 18, 2024
	Add new Web site: Cleveland Museum of Natural History - Carnivores of Gondwana.	Gloria Lotha	May 24, 2024
	Add new Web site: Wet Tropics Management Authority - Gondwana.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 20, 2024
	Add new Web site: Tasmanian Government - Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania - Gondwana (PDF).	Aakanksha Gaur	Aug 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: Live Science - What is Gondwana?	Gloria Lotha	May 06, 2023
	Add new Web site: Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania - Geodiversity - Gondwana.	Satyavrat Nirala	Jul 10, 2015
	Add new Web site: Parks and Wildlife Service of Tasmania - Gondwana.	Surabhi Sinha	Jun 21, 2015
	Add new Web site: Museum Wales - Lost worlds of Gondwana.	Surabhi Sinha	Jun 21, 2015
	Add new Web site: Palaeos - Gondwana.	Marco Sampaolo	Jan 20, 2011
	Add new Web site: Palaeos - Gondwana.	Marco Sampaolo	Jan 20, 2011
	Updated geologic time data.	Richard Pallardy	May 20, 2010
	Article revised and updated.	John P. Rafferty	Apr 25, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998