Tbilisi through 310 million years

Tbilisi lay at 6° south, the latitude of Dodoma today.

Tbilisi crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

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

Farthest north.

Tbilisi lay at 50° north.

The great extinction

Tbilisi lay at 33° north, the latitude of Fuyang today.

Homo sapiens

Tbilisi lay at 42° north, its latitude today.

Tbilisi today.

42° north. In 310 million years the plates have carried it some 13,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 6° south; 310 million years ago
Farthest south: 6° south; 310 million years ago
Farthest north: 50° north; 200 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 280 million years ago
Distance travelled: 13,000 kilometres; 310 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.