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When did Pangea fully assemble?

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Watch Earth's Continents Move — paleogeography Watch a time-lapse of Earth changing through geologic time, from the Cambrian Era to the projected period of Pangea Proxima.

Pangea was fully assembled by the Early Permian Epoch, which occurred approximately 299 million to 273 million years ago.1

The process of its formation involved several stages of continental collision:
* Initial Assembly: By the Devonian Period, the paleocontinents Laurentia and Baltica had joined with various microcontinents to form Euramerica.1
* Gondwana Collision: At the start of the Permian Period, the northwestern coastline of Gondwana collided with the southern portion of Euramerica.1
* Final Completion: The assembly was finalized during the middle of the Early Permian when the Angaran craton of Siberia fused to the existing landmass.1

This massive supercontinent remained intact until it began to fragment during the Early Jurassic Epoch, roughly 200 million years ago.1