Plate tectonics paramount in the formation
Of later landmasses and habitats
Lifeforms adapt to chasms and earthquakes
Shaping the various stages of Pangaea
Traversodonts thrived where others struggled
Spore plants replaced by gymnosperms
Few marine animals known to exist
Ammonites, brachiopods, massive reefs
Lystrosaurus, Cynognathus and ferns fossils
Mesosaurus found in coastal regions
Distribution ranging from polar to equator
Glacial deposits of the same age and structure
Drastic climate change after reconfiguration
Warm tropical air and water transfer halted
Atmospheric circumpolar currents
Antarctica cools down to a frigid state
Deterioration of the northern section
Contributed to the Permian Extinction
Beetles and cicadas wiped away
Acid oceans dissolving benthic species