Tehran through 600 million years

Tehran lay at 10° north, the latitude of Cần Thơ today.

The Cambrian explosion

Tehran lay at 38° south, the latitude of Melbourne today.

Life reaches land

Tehran lay at 55° south.

Tehran crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Tehran lay at 19° north, the latitude of Port-au-Prince today.

Farthest north.

Tehran lay at 47° north.

The great extinction

Tehran lay at 28° north, the latitude of Zunyi today.

Homo sapiens

Tehran lay at 36° north, its latitude today.

Tehran today.

36° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 33,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 10° north; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 56° south; 480 million years ago
Farthest north: 47° north; 190 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 590 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 250 million years ago
Distance travelled: 33,000 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.