Why is Pangaea considered a ancient land mass?

Pangea is the name geologists have given to the hypothesized supercontinent which is believed to have existed around 250 million years ago. Over the past 250 Million years continental drift from plate tectonics has resulted in the continents being where they are today. read more

The name "Pangaea/Pangea" is derived from Ancient Greek pan (πᾶν, "all, entire, whole") and Gaia (Γαῖα, "Mother Earth, land"). The concept that the continents once formed a continuous land mass was first proposed by Alfred Wegener, the originator of the scientific theory of continental drift, in his 1912 publication The Origin of Continents (Die Entstehung der Kontinente). read more