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What’s the difference between pangea and panthalasa

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Pangea was a mega mega of land basically a supercontinent, panthalasa is the mega body of water which would have surrounded pangea.
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Pangea was the supercontinent that had all the landmasses of earth together before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanan. However, Panthalassa is a prehistoric ocean that was surrounding Pangea.

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