Cretaceous
Earth 90 million years ago: continents adrift, seas at record highs — T. rex's ancestors live on a world half-drowned.
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About this globe
The mid-Cretaceous, 90 million years ago, from the PALEOMAP paleo-elevation models. Gondwana has shattered: the South Atlantic now separates South America from Africa, India is an island heading north, and sea levels stand higher than at almost any other time — shallow seaways flood deep into the continents.
North America is cut in two by an inland sea, and pale continental shelves fringe every coast. Fold it and find a world where you could sail across the middle of the continents.
How the data was captured
Reconstructed by paleogeographer Christopher Scotese by rewinding plate motions recorded in seafloor magnetism and matching rock formations, then estimating ancient elevations from geology; rendered by us from the published elevation grids.
Data: PALEOMAP PaleoDEMs — Scotese and Wright 2018 (CC BY 4.0) →
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"Cretaceous" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/cretaceous · Data: PALEOMAP PaleoDEMs — Scotese and Wright 2018 (CC BY 4.0)
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