Breakup of Super Continent 'Pangaea' and Continental Drift This is a special "flat earth" version of the drift of the continents, starting from the breakup of the super-continent Pangea about 200 million years ago. The continents were hand flattened by Atwater such that they are recognizable and they fit together in both their Pangean and present-day configurations Drawn and animated in Photoshop, Morph, and FinalCut by Tanya Atwater (earlier versions by Ian MacMillan and Grace Giles using Flash