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What is the Pangea supercontinent?

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Pangea is a landmass of the Early Permian to Early Jurassic Periods that incorporated almost all modern landmasses and is thus considered a supercontinent. Overwhelming evidence for Pangea includes similar fossil and geological records across different continents and the matching “jigsaw” shapes of today’s continents, most notably the eastern South American and western African coastlines.

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