Yibin through 700 million years

Yibin lay at 33° north, the latitude of Tripoli today.

Yibin crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Yibin lay at 18° south, the latitude of Santa Cruz de la Sierra today.

Life reaches land

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

Yibin crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Yibin crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Yibin crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Yibin crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Yibin lay at 34° north, the latitude of Rabat today.

Farthest north.

Yibin lay at 54° north.

The great extinction

Yibin lay at 30° north, the latitude of Kuwait City today.

Homo sapiens

Yibin lay at 29° north, its latitude today.

Yibin today.

29° north. In 700 million years the plates have carried it some 43,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 33° north; 700 million years ago
Farthest south: 25° south; 510 million years ago
Farthest north: 54° north; 200 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 580 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 430 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 430 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 370 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 340 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 320 million years ago
Distance travelled: 43,000 kilometres; 700 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.