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Various oceans have existed in prehistoric times, comparable to the Atlantic and Pacific. The supercontinent Pangaea was surrounded by the world ocean Panthalassa 300 million years ago, when the Iapetus Ocean (pre-Atlantic) disappeared and the continents of Laurentia, Avalonia, and Baltica fused together.

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