Jurassic
Earth 150 million years ago: Pangaea torn in two, a young Atlantic between — the world of Stegosaurus and the giant sauropods.
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About this globe
The Late Jurassic, 150 million years ago, from the PALEOMAP paleo-elevation models. The breakup is underway: a seaway has split Pangaea into Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south, and the central Atlantic is a real, widening ocean.
This is the heyday of the giant dinosaurs — Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus — and the skies belong to the first birds. South America, Africa, India, Antarctica and Australia are still fused into one enormous southern landmass.
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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"Jurassic" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/jurassic · Data: PALEOMAP PaleoDEMs — Scotese and Wright 2018 (CC BY 4.0)
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