Palaeogeographic reconstruction for Eastern Tethys in the Late Cretaceous showing distribution of continental blocks and fragments of South-east Asia-Australasia and land and sea.  SC = South China  SI = Simao  S = Sibumasu  I = Indochina  EM = East Malaya  WSu = West Sumatra  L = Lhasa  WB = West Burma  SWB =  South West Borneo NP = North Palawan and other small continental fragments now forming part of the Philippines basement M = Mangkalihat  WS = West Sulawesi P = Paternoster B = Bawean EJ = East Java PA = Incipient East Philippine arc  PS = Proto-South China Sea  Sm = Sumba. M numbers represent Indian Ocean magnetic anomalies.

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