Lianyungang through 600 million years

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

The Cambrian explosion

Lianyungang lay at 16° north, the latitude of Khartoum today.

Lianyungang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Life reaches land

Lianyungang lay at 12° south, the latitude of Lima today.

Lianyungang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Lianyungang lay at 47° north, the latitude of Bern today.

Farthest north.

Lianyungang lay at 56° north.

The great extinction

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

Homo sapiens

Lianyungang lay at 35° north, its latitude today.

Lianyungang today.

35° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 40,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 33° north; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 15° south; 460 million years ago
Farthest north: 56° north; 210 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 510 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 440 million years ago
Distance travelled: 40,000 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.