Jingzhou through 700 million years

Jingzhou lay at 39° north, the latitude of Dushanbe today.

Jingzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Jingzhou lay at 11° south, the latitude of Moroni today.

Life reaches land

Jingzhou lay at 19° south, the latitude of Sucre today.

Jingzhou crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Jingzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The first dinosaurs

Jingzhou lay at 39° north, the latitude of Pyongyang today.

Farthest north.

Jingzhou lay at 55° north.

The great extinction

Jingzhou lay at 33° north, the latitude of Tripoli today.

Homo sapiens

Jingzhou lay at 30° north, its latitude today.

Jingzhou today.

30° north. In 700 million years the plates have carried it some 44,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 39° north; 700 million years ago
Farthest south: 20° south; 510 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
Crossed the equator: 330 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 330 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.