earth paleomaps: history of continental drift

Earth map: changes over half a billion years

Animated paleomaps of Phanerozoic eon

Source:Mollewide Plate Tectonic Maps

http://cpgeosystems.com/mollglobe.html

Hadean4 billion years ago

Archean2,5 billion years ago

Cryogenian650 million years ago

Ediacaran600 million years ago

Ediacaran560 million years ago

Cambrian540 million years ago

Cambrian500 million years ago

Ordovician470 million years ago

Silurian450 million years ago

Silurian430 million years ago

Devonian400 million years ago

Devonian370 million years ago

Carboniferous340 million years ago

Carboniferous300 million years ago

Permian280 million years ago

Permian260 million years ago

Triassic240 million years ago

Triassic220 million years ago

Jurassic220 million years ago

Jurassic170 million years ago

Jurassic150 million years ago

Cretaceous120 million years ago

Cretaceous105 million years ago

Cretaceous90 million years ago

Paleocene65 million years ago

Eocene50 million years ago

Oligocene35 million years ago

Miocene20 million years ago

Pleistocene50 thousand years ago

Holocene10 thousand years ago