Yaoundé through 1 billion years

Yaoundé lay at 46° south.

The Cambrian explosion

Yaoundé lay at 75° south.

Life reaches land

Yaoundé lay at 58° south.

Farthest south.

Yaoundé lay at 80° south.

The first dinosaurs

Yaoundé lay at 21° south.

The great extinction

Yaoundé lay at 11° south, the latitude of Moroni today.

Homo sapiens

Yaoundé lay at 4° north, its latitude today.

Yaoundé today.

4° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 44,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 46° south; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 80° south; 380 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 10 million years ago
Distance travelled: 44,000 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.