Mexico City through 410 million years

Mexico City lay at 48° south.

The first dinosaurs

Mexico City lay at 6° south, the latitude of Jakarta today.

Mexico City crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The great extinction

Mexico City lay at 26° north, the latitude of Chenzhou today.

Homo sapiens

Mexico City lay at 19° north, its latitude today.

Mexico City today.

19° north. In 410 million years the plates have carried it some 19,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 48° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest south: 48° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest north: 26° north; 70 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 190 million years ago
Distance travelled: 19,000 kilometres; 410 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.