Gondwana
Definition
- The large southern land mass that existed from the Cambrian (540 mya) to the Jurassic (138 mya). Present-day remnants are South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica.
- Supercontinent thought to have existed in the southern hemisphere over 200 million years ago, which consisted of South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, and the East Indies.
- The southern of the two large continents that existed in the early Mesozoic.
文献(引用)
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