PaleoMAP PaleoCoastlines data

The dataset is intended to supplement the journal article describing it (Kocsis and Scotese, Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103463). Please cite this study if you use the dataset.

ESRI vector shapefiles of continental margins and coastlines are included. Continental margins are -1400m isobaths of the PaleoMAP PaleoDEMs (https://www.earthbyte.org/paleodem-resource-scotese-and-wright-2018/). Coastlines from the PaleoDEMs are adjusted to represent maximum transgressive surfaces, as indicated by the stage-level fossil occurrences of the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org).

This is version 7.3 (added calculated areas from Fig. 12 of Kocsis and Scotese).

Contents

• paleocoastlines_v7_shapefiles.zip - The paleocoastlines in ESRI shapefiles. Directory CM includes continental margins, CS includes the coastlines.
• paleomap_global_plate_model_v19o_r1c.zip - The "v19o_r1c" version of the paleomap rotation file, with the corresponding partitioning polygons.
• paleomap_global_plate_model_v3.zip - The earlier, "v3" version of the paleomap rotation file with the corresponding partitioning polygons. (Scotese, 2016)
• paleomap_political_boundaries_v3.zip - The earlier, "v3" version of the paleomap poltical/administrative boundaries (GPlates markup and ESRI Shapefiles, Scotese, 2016)
• paleocoastlines_png_equirect.zip - Equirectangular projection of the plotted paleocoastlines with present-day coastlines. (3600x1800)
• paleocoastlines_png_mollweide.zip - Mollweide projection of the plotted paleocoastlines with present-day coastlines. (3600x1800)
• equirectangular.pdf - Equirectangular projection of the plotted paleocoastlines (vector)  
• mollweide.pdf - Mollweide projection of the plotted paleocoastlines (vector) 
• areas.csv - Calcuated areas for the landmasses and flooded shelves. Includes values separately for the climatic belts separately and cumulated northwards from the south polar area.
• readme.md - Readme and change log