Paleocontinent

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A continent that existed in the geological past.

    "There was also a northern paleocontinent, Angara-Land, spanning the present-day North Atlantic connecting North America with Europe via Greenland and including the whole of Asia north of the Tethys."

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ur-continent

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"There was also a northern paleocontinent, Angara-Land, spanning the present-day North Atlantic connecting North America with Europe via Greenland and including the whole of Asia north of the Tethys."

Etymology

From paleo- + continent.

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