Talk:Pannotia

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The external link section optimistically equates the Late Precambrian Supercontinent of scotese.com with Pannotia - that's like jumping to convenient but inaccurate conclusions to me. As much as I know the existence of Pannotia is contested. We don't know if scotese.com accepts the Pannotia theory. The formulation

This map illustrates the break-up of the supercontinent, Rodinia, which formed 1100 million years ago,

hints that scotese.com might (neither may, nor does) think otherwise... Rursus 14:45, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I googled site:www.scotese.com Pannotia, and indeed, the site refers to Late Precambrian in [1] as was it the time when Pannotia was formed. So I retracted the doubts myself. Rursus 16:49, 21 November 2006 (UTC)