EvC Forum: fossil data superimposed on a map of pangea

I'm interested in seeing a comprehensive record of fossils superimposed on a map of the super continent.

I would love to see something like this myself! It really wouldn't be all that hard to do. (at least it doesn't seem like it would be, but then I'm not a programmer

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Plate tectonic animations do exist. Here's one (rather small though)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html

There is an excellent source for fossil locations

http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=beginTaxonInfo

You can search by scientific name and then get information about where the fossil was found, in what layer, etc...

Dr. A is right, there are hundreds of thousands of occurrences. But you wouldn't have to do everyone of them. You could start with a single group. I was thinking of doing something like this with the Cetacea.

Let me know what if you can come up with something.

HBD

Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for. But until the end of the present exile has come and terminated this our imperfection by which "we know in part," I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca

"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.

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