Neijiang through 700 million years

Neijiang lay at 33° north, the latitude of Baghdad today.

Neijiang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Neijiang lay at 17° south, the latitude of Santa Cruz de la Sierra today.

Life reaches land

Neijiang lay at 23° south, the latitude of São Paulo today.

Neijiang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Neijiang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Neijiang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The first dinosaurs

Neijiang lay at 35° north, the latitude of Nicosia today.

Farthest north.

Neijiang lay at 55° north.

The great extinction

Neijiang lay at 31° north, the latitude of Cairo today.

Homo sapiens

Neijiang lay at 30° north, its latitude today.

Neijiang today.

30° north. In 700 million years the plates have carried it some 43,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 33° north; 700 million years ago
Farthest south: 25° south; 510 million years ago
Farthest north: 55° north; 200 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 580 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 430 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 420 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 380 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 330 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 320 million years ago
Distance travelled: 43,000 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.