Cimmeria (continent) Cimmeria (continent) Cimmeria was an ancient continent, or, rather, a string of microcontinents or terranes, that rifted from Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere and was accreted to Eurasia in the Northern Hemisphere. It consisted of parts of what is today Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, Shan–Thai, and Malay Peninsula. Cimmeria rifted from the Gondwanan shores of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean during the Carboniferous-earliest Permian and as the Neo-Tethys Ocean opened behind it, during the Permian, the Paleo-Tethys closed in front of it. Cimmeria rifted off Gondwana from east to west, from Australia to the eastern Mediterranean. It stretched across several latitudes and
Smallest organisms chameleons ("B. minima"), 14–19 millimetres for male Mount d'Ambre leaf chameleons ("B. tuberculata") and 15–16 millimetres for male "B. micra", though females are larger. Of the aforementioned geckos, "S. ariasae" was first described in 2001 by the biologists Blair Hedges and Richard Thomas. This dwarf gecko is endangered and lives in Jaragua National Park in the Dominican Republic and on Beata Island ("Isla Beata"), off the southern coast of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic. The world's smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise ("Homopus signatus") from South Africa. The males measure , while females measure up to almost . The