By the Late Carboniferous the continents that make up modern North America and Europe had collided with the southern continents of Gondwana to form the western half of Pangea.

• 三亿六百万年前：晚石炭纪，地质历史上强烈的成煤时期地球演化到晚石炭纪，构成今天北美和欧洲的陆块和冈瓦那南部的陆块碰撞后形成了泛大陆的西部。