- Appalachia (Mesozoic)
In the
Mesozoic Era, Appalachia was a land area which is now an eastern part of theUSA , separated fromLaramidia by theWestern Interior Seaway , which shrank and became thePierre Seaway and finally dried up. Laramidia was roughly what is now the westerncordillera area of theUSA andCanada .
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