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ID: 7544498
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7544498
Record Type:
physical
Laramidia (former physical feature)
Note:
Island continent dating to the Late Cretaceous period, when the Western Interior Seaway split the continent of North America in two; strip of land roughly corresponding to the western quarter of North America.
Names:
Laramidia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Laurasia
(former physical feature) (
P
)
........
Laramidia
(former physical feature) (
P
)
Place Types:
former physical feature (
preferred
,
C
)
island (
H
)
continent (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Laramidia..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Sampson, Lost Continent, Scientific American (2012)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Sampson, Lost Continent, Scientific American (2012)
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