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English: Map of the later North Atlantic region after the Caledonian/Acadian orogenies. Fossil species on both side of the red line differ for the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, this is evidence for the existence of a former ocean (Iapetus Ocean) before the time Pangaea was created.

Reconstruction and location of fossils based on:

  • Windley, B.F.; 1996: The Evolving Continents, John Wiley & Sons (3rd ed.), ISBN-10: 0471917397
  • Ziegler, P.A.; 1990: Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe, Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij BV (2nd ed.), ISBN 90-6644-125-9.
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