About 250 million years ago, scientists believe, a vast supercontinent covering much of the southern hemisphere and known as Gondwanaland began breaking up.
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To the north of the Tethys, the then land mass was called Angaraland and to the south of it, it was called Gondwanaland.
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Another term for the supercontinent that is thought to have existed at the end of Neoproterozoic time is " Greater Gondwanaland ", suggested by.
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He named this large land mass Gondwanaland ( named after the district in India where the plant " Glossopteris " was found ).
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Similar arguments suggest that other bird orders, such as galliforms _ chickens and their ilk _ also started on Gondwanaland roughly 100 million years ago.
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Landhoppers have a wide distribution in areas that were formerly part of Gondwanaland, but have colonised parts of Europe and North America in recent times.
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As a result, this region was probably the last refugium for plants and animals that had inhabited Antarctica after it separated from the Gondwanaland supercontinent.
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About 60 million years ago, Gondwanaland began to break up into what we know now as South America, Africa, Antarctica, India and Australia.
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Pangea later broke up into smaller continents, but then, some 200 million years ago, the separate continents recombined in a new configuration also named Gondwanaland.
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Eidothea were living fossils of the rainforests which once covered the ancient super-continent of Gondwanaland _ now Australia, Africa, South America and New Zealand,
