Huaihua through 1 billion years

Huaihua lay at 22° north, the latitude of Vadodara today.

Farthest north.

Huaihua lay at 82° north.

Huaihua crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Huaihua lay at 13° south, the latitude of Lima today.

Life reaches land

Huaihua lay at 19° south, the latitude of Antananarivo today.

Huaihua crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Huaihua crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Huaihua crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Huaihua crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Huaihua crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Huaihua lay at 36° north, the latitude of Valletta today.

The great extinction

Huaihua lay at 29° north, the latitude of Kuwait City today.

Homo sapiens

Huaihua lay at 28° north, its latitude today.

Huaihua today.

28° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 58,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 22° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 20° south; 510 million years ago
Farthest north: 82° north; 790 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 580 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 430 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 410 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 390 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 340 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 320 million years ago
Distance travelled: 58,000 kilometres; 1 billion 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.