Atlantica

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Translingual

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Atlantica

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Discidae – land snails.

English

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Etymology

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The name was introduced by John J. W. Rogers in 1996, because the parts of the ancient continent are now located on opposite sides of the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Atlantica

  1. An ancient continent that formed during the Proterozoic about 2,000 million years ago from various 2 Ga cratons located in what are now West Africa and eastern South America.