Figure 10. Neuman's reconstruction of the distribution of islands with Celtic fauna in the ancestral Atlantic Ocean (labeled Iapetus Ocean) during the early Ordovician period. North America is at the top, and Europe is at the bottom. Islands with Celtic fauna are labeled with numbers. As this ocean closed, the island labeled "Maine" became a permanent part of our landscape.

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