Vadodara through 850 million years

Vadodara lay at 58° north, the latitude of Stockholm today.

Farthest north.

Vadodara lay at 66° north.

Vadodara crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Vadodara lay at 35° south, the latitude of Canberra today.

Life reaches land

Vadodara lay at 35° south, the latitude of Canberra today.

Farthest south.

Vadodara lay at 64° south.

The first dinosaurs

Vadodara lay at 35° south, the latitude of Buenos Aires today.

The great extinction

Vadodara lay at 23° south, the latitude of Rio de Janeiro today.

Vadodara crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Homo sapiens

Vadodara lay at 22° north, its latitude today.

Vadodara today.

22° north. In 850 million years the plates have carried it some 49,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 58° north; 850 million years ago
Farthest south: 64° south; 340 million years ago
Farthest north: 66° north; 810 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 600 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 50 million years ago
Distance travelled: 49,000 kilometres; 850 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.