Evolution of insects reaching wing margin and formation of the anal loop. The Jurassic () was important in the development of birds, one of the insects' major predators. During the early Jurassic period, the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into the northern supercontinent Laurasia and the southern supercontinent Gondwana; the Gulf of Mexico opened in the new rift between North America and what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The Jurassic North Atlantic Ocean was relatively narrow, while the South Atlantic did not open until the following Cretaceous Period, when Gondwana itself rifted apart. The global climate during the Jurassic was warm and humid. Similar
Pangaea (album) its predecessor, "Pangaea"s lengthy performances combined musical forms from African-American genres with Karlheinz Stockhausen's "conception of a 'world music' that moves like creeping tectonic plates". At the end of 1991, "Pangaea" was voted the ninth best reissue of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published in "The Village Voice". As with several other of Davis' live albums from the period, "Pangaea" became an influence on several no wave, funk, and highbrow new wave and punk rock musicians, including Tom Verlaine of Television and Robert Quine. Footnotes Bibliography Pangaea (album) Pangaea is a double