Anqing through 700 million years

Anqing lay at 42° north, the latitude of Podgorica today.

Anqing crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Anqing lay at 7° south, the latitude of Dar es Salaam today.

Life reaches land

Anqing lay at 17° south, the latitude of La Paz today.

Anqing crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Anqing lay at 42° north, the latitude of Rome today.

Farthest north.

Anqing lay at 55° north.

The great extinction

Anqing lay at 34° north, the latitude of Casablanca today.

Homo sapiens

Anqing lay at 31° north, its latitude today.

Anqing today.

31° north. In 700 million years the plates have carried it some 44,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 42° north; 700 million years ago
Farthest south: 17° south; 480 million years ago
Farthest north: 55° north; 210 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 570 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 440 million years ago
Distance travelled: 44,000 kilometres; 700 million years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.