These two supercontinents coexisted during the Mesozoic Era (251 to 66 million years ago) but Pangaea united them around 335 million years ago. The continents we know today originated with the ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time ... all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods ... All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or ...

Pangea was an extraordinary thing and we haven't seen the like ... The archosaurs were a component of the diapsid lineage, which includes many successful Mesozoic groups such as the dinosaurs and ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried ... that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.

In the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, which were around 335 to 175 million years ago, a supercontinent known as Pangaea existed. This massive landmass was formed by the collision and ...