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Pangea
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins near the end of the Permian Period. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are the locations of the interval's subduction zones.
Pangea existed as a supercontinent from the Early Permian Period through the Early Jurassic Period.12
The assembly of its component landmasses was well underway during the Devonian Period, but the supercontinent was not fully assembled until the middle of the Early Permian. Pangea remained intact until it began to fragment during the Early Jurassic, approximately 200 million years ago.2