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Hello everyone, I've recently been organizing my collection into some new shelving and came up with an idea of something I thought could be interesting. These shelves will be displaying the part of my collection starting from the lower Ordovician and up to the Late Devonian, the part I focus most on. And here, I organized my fossils by period/ epoch (depending on how many I have), the idea was to put a 3d printed map of roughly what the continents were during each range of time. The question is, I am not sure where I could find maps for reference to make my 3d models, I am looking for ones that are as detailed as possible, representing each of the epochs I have here, preferably in something like a mollweide projection, although I am open to using others, I just think that may look the best. I used to know a site that would let you select a certain period or epoch and it would show you the map of that time, but the name escapees me at the moment, If anyone knows a similar resource or just some good detailed maps, I would really appreciate your help in finding it. Thank you for your time. Misha

I was curious about what peoples favorite Geologic Time period was. My favorites would have to be Early Cretaceous, because biodiversity was higher than previous times and we begin to see new life forms we might recognize today such as this 100 million year old bee I have. My second favorite is probably the Early Permian, entire Carboniferous and later Devonian because amphibians, therapsids, reptiles, sharks and plant evolution. (The chart below shows biodiversity.)