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The 35 pages that link to Tethys Ocean, each with the reason it gives.

• PangaeaRelated: Its opening marked the first stage of Pangaea's long dismemberment.

• HimalayasRelated: Its vanished seafloor became the ophiolites and marine limestones now high in the mountains.

• MioceneRelated: Its shrinking and closure helped reorganize Miocene marine connections.

• PaleogeneRelated: Its progressive closure altered Paleogene ocean connections and regional climates.

• Arabian PlateRelated: Its remnants and closure shaped the northern margin of Arabia.

• African PlateRelated: Its closure and remnants shaped the plate’s northern tectonic history.

• Wilson cycleRelated: A completed cycle: its closure produced the Himalaya and the Alps.

• MosasaurRelated: Many early mosasaur fossils come from deposits associated with this ancient seaway.

• Alpine orogenyRelated: Its oceanic crust was consumed before continental collision built the Alps.

• LaurasiaRelated: Its changing margins bordered Laurasia and Gondwana as they drifted apart.

• Solnhofen limestoneRelated: The marine waters around the Solnhofen islands were connected to the broader Tethyan realm.

• AmbulocetusRelated: Its shorelines shaped the marine environments inhabited by early whales in the region.

• BasilosaurusRelated: North African Basilosaurus fossils formed in sediments deposited along this ancient sea.

• SireniaRelated: Early sirenian fossils point to origins along its ancient shores.

• Monte San GiorgioRelated: Monte San Giorgio’s Middle Triassic marine basin formed along the western Tethyan realm.

• Taurus MountainsRelated: Its closure preceded the collisions that uplifted the Taurus region.

• HalobatesRelated: Fossil Halobates have been found in Tethyan deposits, extending the genus's history into the ancient seas.

• DorudonRelated: Dorudon fossils occur in deposits formed along the margins of this Eocene ocean.

• PanthalassaRelated: This major ocean lay within the broader reorganization of waters around Pangaea.

• Continental fragmentRelated: Its changing margins and closure reshaped the paths of fragments derived from Gondwana.

• Paleo-Tethys OceanRelated: The younger Tethys occupied a region partly inherited from the Paleo-Tethys after its closure.

• ThalattosauriaRelated: Tethyan marine deposits preserve important thalattosaur fossils from Europe and Asia.

• Ciudad EncantadaRelated: Marine environments associated with this ancient ocean helped deposit carbonate sediments in the region.

• El Torcal de AntequeraRelated: Marine sediments accumulated in the region when an ancient sea covered it.

• Jugurtha TablelandRelated: Marine sediments from the ancient Tethys contributed to North Africa’s limestone strata.

• RemingtonocetidaeRelated: The shallow marine environments around Tethys framed early whale habitats in South Asia.