Follow @physics_unplugged | video description 👇 Pangaea: Pangaea or Pangea (pæn’d zi:e/ pan-JEE-a) 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 Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic and beginning of the Jurassic Pangaea was C-shaped, with the bulk of its mass stretching

Breakup of Super Continent 'Pangaea' and Continental Drift This is a special "flat earth" version of the drift of the continents, starting from the breakup of the super-continent Pangea about 200 million years ago. The continents were hand flattened by Atwater such that they are recognizable and they fit together in both their Pangean and present-day configurations Drawn and animated in Photoshop, Morph, and FinalCut by Tanya Atwater (earlier versions by Ian MacMillan and Grace Giles using Flash