Pangaea: The First Continent

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, much of Pangaea was in the Southern Hemisphere and surrounded by a superocean, Panthalassa. Pangaea was the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists.

Course Content

What Was Pangaea?
2 Topics
Definition and meaning of Pangaea
How scientists discovered it
Life on Pangaea
2 Topics
Plants and animals during the time of Pangaea
Climate and environment