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In 1937, Alexander du Toit identified an ancient northern landmass consisting of North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia, which he then named ________ .

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Laurasia, ancient continental mass in the Northern Hemisphere that included North America, Europe, and Asia (except peninsular India). Its existence was proposed by Alexander Du Toit, a South African geologist, in Our Wandering Continents (1937).

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