The other basement terranes of the Romanian Carpathians originated close to the Ordovician North-African orogen, as a result of the eastern Rheic Ocean opening and closure. Except for the Sebe艧-Lotru terrane that includes a lower metamorphic unit of Cadomian age, all the other terranes (Bretila, Tulghe艧, Negri艧oara and Rebra in the East Carpathians, Some艧, Biharia and Baia de Arie艧 in the Apuseni mountains, Fagara艧, Leaota, Cara艧 and Pade艧 in the South Carpathians) represent late Cambrian-Ordovician rock assemblages. Their provenance, is probably within paleo-northeast Africa, close to the Arabian-Nubian shield.
The late Cambrian-Ordovician terranes are defined here as Carpathian-type terranes. According to their lithostratigraphy and origin, some are of continental margin magmatic arc setting, whereas others formed in rift and back-arc environment and closed to passive continental margin settings. In a paleogeographic reconstruction, the continental margin magmatic arc terranes were first that drifted out, followed by the passive continental margin terranes with the back-arc terranes in their front. They accreted to Laurussia during the Variscan orogeny. Some of them (Sebe艧-Lotru in South Carpathians and Baia de Arie艧 in Apuseni mountains) underwent eclogite-grade metamorphism. The Danubian terranes, the Bretila terrane and the Some艧 terrane were intruded by Variscan granitoids.