How to use in-sentence of “gondwana”:
+ The African, Somali and Arabian Plates were once all part of the great Gondwana southern supercontinent, as was the Indian subcontinent.
+ This began after the rupture of Gondwana about 130 million years ago.
+ In the Jurassic, when Pangaea rifted into two supercontinents, Gondwana and Laurasia, Laurussia became part of Laurasia.
+ Australasia had started to separate from other continents as Gondwana started to break up in the Mesozoic era.
+ The Gondwana Rainforests are so-called because the fossil record indicates that when Gondwana existed it was covered by rainforests containing the same kinds of species that are living today.
Example sentences of “gondwana”:
+ Between 160 and 23 million years ago, Gondwana broke up.
+ As Gondwana broke up, its two main pieces had marsupial mammals.
+ Between 160 and 23 million years ago, Gondwana broke up.
+ As Gondwana broke up, its two main pieces had marsupial mammals.
+ That was when Pangaea formed as Gondwana and the Old Red Sandstone continent collided in the middle to late Palaeozoic.
+ The last connection of South America with any part of Gondwana was a link with West Antarctica, which broke in the Oligocene, only 30 mya.
+ The wetland forests ended when the land level was raised by the pressure of the Gondwana continent against Laurussia.
+ When Pangaea broke up, it split first into Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.
+ It was once thought that ratites were all one monophyletic group, which evolved together in Gondwana in the Upper Cretaceous.
+ In stages, Gondwana also broke up, eventually into half-a-dozen continents we recognise today.
+ The Australasian continental plate was once attached to Antarctica as part of the Gondwana supercontinent.
+ It broke into supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana before each of these broke into the current continents.
+ They originated in the northern hemisphere and arrived in some Gondwana continents much later.
+ It was caused by a continental collision between Euramerica and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea.
+ During the Upper Jurassic epoch, Pangaea broke up into two supercontinents, Laurasia to the north, and Gondwana to the south.