Baoji through 600 million years

Baoji lay at 38° north, the latitude of Athens today.

Baoji crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Baoji lay on the equator.

Life reaches land

Baoji lay at 13° south, the latitude of Apia today.

Baoji crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Baoji lay at 67° north.

The great extinction

Baoji lay at 36° north, the latitude of Tehran today.

Homo sapiens

Baoji lay at 34° north, its latitude today.

Baoji today.

34° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 42,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 38° north; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 15° south; 480 million years ago
Farthest north: 70° north; 220 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 560 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 540 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 530 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 450 million years ago
Distance travelled: 42,000 kilometres; 600 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.