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Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the Ca
The supercontinent Pangaea in the early Mesozoic (at 200 Ma)
Alfred Wegener c. 1924–1930
Appalachian orogeny
Fossil Dicroidium zuberi leaf from the Early Triassic of Argentina. Dicroidium was a ubiquitous tree across much of southern Pangaea during the Triassic period.
The Carboniferous rainforest collapse was a minor extinction event that occurred around 305 million years ago in the Carboniferous period. The event occurred at the end of the Moscovian and continued
Coal forests continued after the Carboniferous rainforest collapse. These plant fossils are from one of those forests from about 5 million years after the CRC. However, the composition of the forests changed from a lepidodendron-dominated forest to one of predominantly tree ferns and seed ferns.
Terrestrially adapted synapsids, the predecessors of the mammal lineage, like Archaeothyris were among the groups who quickly recovered after the collapse.
Fossil lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, from Joggins, with attached stigmarian roots