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'Euramerica' (also known as 'Laurussia' or 'Old Red Continent') was a minor supercontinent created in the Devonian as the result of a collision between the Laurentian and Baltica cratons (Caledonian orogeny).

Euramerica became a part of the major supercontinent Pangaea in the Permian. In the Jurassic, when Pangaea rifted into two continents, Gondwana and Laurasia, Euramerica was a part of Laurasia. In the Cretaceous, Laurasia split into the continents of North America and Eurasia. The Laurentian craton became a part of North America, while Baltica became a part of Eurasia.

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★ Continental drift

★ Eurasia

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★ Palaeos Earth: Geography: Euramerica

★ Paleogeographic globe of the Devonian Earth