Northern Eurasia consists of several large tectonic elements which have amalgamated during Phanerozoic time: namely the Baltic Shield/Russian Platform, Siberian Platform, Kazakhstan Block, Chukotka Block, Verkhoyansk Belt and Omolon Massif, Amur Block (Sikhote Alin), Sino-Korean Block (North China Block), Yangtze Paraplatform, Japan Arc, West Spitsbergen and numerous smaller units not treated in this paper. Accretion phases of these elements to each other are discussed in terms of their paleomagnetic signatures, paleolatitudinal distributions and paleobiological constraints, and a plate tectonic cladogram has been constructed for the mostly Mesozoic amalgamation of the Asian elements.