Ulaanbaatar through 410 million years

Ulaanbaatar lay at 30° north, the latitude of Leshan today.

The first dinosaurs

Ulaanbaatar lay at 78° north.

The great extinction

Ulaanbaatar lay at 49° north, the latitude of Paris today.

Homo sapiens

Ulaanbaatar lay at 48° north, its latitude today.

Ulaanbaatar today.

48° north. In 410 million years the plates have carried it some 19,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 30° north; 410 million years ago
Farthest south: 26° north; 400 million years ago
Farthest north: 83° north; 220 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.