• A paleocontinent or palaeocontinent is a distinct area of continental crust that existed as a major landmass in the geological past. There have been many...
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    This is a list of paleocontinents, significant landmasses that have been proposed to exist in the geological past. The degree of certainty to which the...
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    Argoland is the tentative name of a hypothetical paleocontinent which was suggested to rift off from northwestern Australia some 155 Ma ago (Late Jurassic)...
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    called Sahul-land, Meganesia, Papualand and Greater Australia, was a paleocontinent that encompassed the modern-day landmasses of mainland Australia, Tasmania...
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    Baltica is a paleocontinent that formed in the Paleoproterozoic and now constitutes northwestern Eurasia, or Europe north of the Trans-European Suture...
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    it was about 50,000 years ago that these peoples reached Sahul (the paleocontinent consisting of present-day Australia and New Guinea). The sea levels...
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    Arctica, 2400 Ma (Siderian) Historical continent Formed 2565 Ma Type Paleocontinent Today part of Siberian craton Slave Craton Wyoming Craton Superior Craton...
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    Bothriolepis resided in an array of paleo-environments spread across every paleocontinent, including near shore marine and freshwater settings. Most species of...
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  • Craton (the later paleocontinent of Laurentia), surrounded in the southeast with the East European Craton (the later paleocontinent of Baltica), the Amazonian...
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    Precambrian ranges, and deduces the past existence and contours of the paleocontinent that predated the Atlantic Ocean opening. In French Guiana he tackles...
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