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But because of various tectonic shenanigans through some parts of the Mesozoic (250 to 65 million years ago) a good chunk of Europe was flooded. This formed a collection of shallow margin (epicontinental) seas in a lot of (sedimentary) rock layers dotted across Europe were deposited.

Paleogeography of the earliest Jurassic. The colors represent: dark blue = deep ocean, medium blue = continental slope, light blue = shallow shelf, light green = terrestrial areas receiving sediments, dark green = emergent areas, pink = Zechstein salt basin. The shading pattern: dots = clastics (i.e., mud, silt, sand, and conglomerate), brick = carbonates. The thick black line is the coastline. The thin dashed line is the shelf edge. source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128094174000045
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and so Tethys remained the external sea to the original internal crescent, and the internal saltwater regions should be named otherwise?

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