Triassic
Earth 220 million years ago: the first dinosaurs walk a Pangaea that is just beginning to crack.
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About this globe
The Late Triassic, 220 million years ago, from the PALEOMAP paleo-elevation models. Pangaea still holds together, but shallow seas bite deep into its eastern flank and the rift valleys that will one day become the Atlantic are already tearing at its seams.
This is the world where the first dinosaurs — and the first mammals — appeared, a supercontinent of vast monsoon coasts and interior deserts. Hold it next to the Pangaea globe and you can spot the first signs of the breakup to come.
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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Print at 100% scale. Cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines, glue the tabs. Your PDF can take up to a minute to prepare — hang tight after clicking.
In the US? Print the A4 file and choose “fit to page” — it scales cleanly onto Letter paper.
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Free for personal use, classrooms, and gifts — not for resale. If you post it on your site or share it online, please credit Folding Globes with a link. Copy-paste blurb:
"Triassic" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/triassic · Data: PALEOMAP PaleoDEMs — Scotese and Wright 2018 (CC BY 4.0)
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