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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.
The supercontinent Pangea was surrounded by a vast global ocean known as Panthalassa.12
In addition to this surrounding ocean, Pangea featured a large, tropical eastward-opening embayment along its eastern edge called the Tethys Sea (or Tethys Ocean).132