Eurameria

Japanese: Eurameria
Eurameria

…Insects flourished remarkably, and the dragonfly Meganeura had a wingspan of over 65 cm. From the Carboniferous to the Permian period, there were supercontinents called Gondwana in the southern hemisphere and Eurameria (also called Laurasia) in the northern hemisphere, and it is thought that they joined at their western ends to form a huge supercontinent called Pangaea. At that time, there were no continents anywhere else on the Earth, and only this supercontinent had a monotonous distribution of land and sea. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Eurameria" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…昆虫類が著しく栄え,トンボの仲間のメガネウラは翅をひろげると65cm以上にもなった。 石炭紀から二畳紀にかけて,南半球側にゴンドワナGondwana,北半球側にユーラメリアEurameria(ローラシアともいう)と呼ばれる超大陸があり,それらが西端で合体し,全体がパンゲアPangaeaと称する巨大な超大陸をなしていたと考えられている。このころ地球上の他の部分には大陸はなく,この超大陸のみの単調な海陸分布となっていた。…

※「Eurameria」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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