Dakar through 150 million years

Dakar lay at 12° north, the latitude of Phnom Penh today.

The great extinction

Dakar lay at 6° north, the latitude of Paramaribo today.

Homo sapiens

Dakar lay at 15° north, its latitude today.

Dakar today.

15° north. In 150 million years the plates have carried it some 3,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 12° north; 150 million years ago
Farthest south: 5° north; 40 million years ago
Farthest north: 15° north; 120 million years ago
Distance travelled: 3,000 kilometres; 150 million years

other places

Banjul
Bissau
Nouakchott
Praia
Conakry
Freetown
Bamako
Monrovia
Yamoussoukro
Ouagadougou

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.