Pangea timeline

 Here is a simplified timeline of Pangaea, showing how it formed and later broke apart due to movements explained by Plate Tectonics. 🌍

🌎 Pangaea Timeline

~335 million years ago (Late Carboniferous)

• Earth’s continents gradually collide and merge.
• The supercontinent Pangaea begins forming.

~300 million years ago

• Pangaea becomes fully assembled.
• Surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa.
• A smaller internal sea exists called Tethys Ocean.

~252 million years ago

• The Permian–Triassic Extinction Event occurs.
• About 90% of marine species and 70% of land species go extinct.

~200 million years ago (Early Jurassic)

• Pangaea begins breaking apart.
• Splits into two large landmasses:
  
• Laurasia (North America, Europe, Asia)
• Gondwana (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, India)
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~180–150 million years ago

• Further fragmentation begins.
• Atlantic Ocean starts forming.

~100–66 million years ago

• Continents move closer to their modern positions.

Present Day

• Continents continue drifting a few centimeters per year.
• Some scientists predict a future supercontinent may form again in about 200–300 million years.

✅ Quick Summary

Time	Event
335 MYA	Pangaea begins forming
300 MYA	Fully assembled
252 MYA	Permian–Triassic extinction
200 MYA	Breakup begins
180–100 MYA	Continents separate
Today	Continents still drifting

If you want, I can also show:

• 🌍 A visual map timeline of Pangaea breaking apart
• 🦖 How dinosaurs spread across Pangaea
• 🔮 What the next supercontinent (Amasia / Pangaea Proxima) might look like.