The supercontinent cycle explains how landmasses amalgamate into super-plates, which dismember after a ~100 Myr tenure in a quasi-periodic manner controlling Earth’s long-term geodynamics. Pangea, the latest supercontinent, formed ~330 Ma, began to rift ~240 Ma finally broke-up ~200 Ma and it is generally considered the template for all previous supercontinents. The formation of Pangea as a super-plate 330 Ma show a major pitfall: The geologic record between 330-270 Ma predicts >1500km of shortening/extension and shows large volumes of magmatism and metamorphism of unidentified origin. Here I present a tectonic reconstruction that reconciles the inconsistent datasets. In this model, after the initial amalgamation of Pangea the comprising plates kept interacting at least between 320 Ma and 270 Ma, when finally established as a super-plate for a brief period of <70 Myr, which following most recent models would be too short to control the mantle dynamics.