Shenyang through 1 billion years

Shenyang lay at 34° north, the latitude of Kabul today.

Shenyang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Shenyang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Farthest north.

Shenyang lay at 60° north.

The Cambrian explosion

Shenyang lay at 21° north, the latitude of Hanoi today.

Shenyang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Life reaches land

Shenyang lay at 5° south, the latitude of Victoria today.

Shenyang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Shenyang lay at 51° north, the latitude of Astana today.

The great extinction

Shenyang lay at 46° north, the latitude of Zagreb today.

Homo sapiens

Shenyang lay at 42° north, its latitude today.

Shenyang today.

42° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 61,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 34° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 8° south; 460 million years ago
Farthest north: 60° north; 710 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 880 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 860 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 500 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 450 million years ago
Distance travelled: 61,000 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.