“…Paleogeographic maps that show the amount of continental flooding (millions of km 2 ) provide an independent measurement of past sealevel and have been used to quantify continental flooding. On the basis of paleogeographic maps (Ronov et al, 1984(Ronov et al, , 1989Scotese and Golonka, 1992;Golonka et al, 1994;Scotese, 1998;Smith et al, 2004), several Phanerozoic continental flooding curves have been published over the past decades (Ronov, 1994;Worsley et al, 1994;Otto-Bliesner, 1995;Walker et al, 2002;Smith et al, 2004;Heine et al, 2015). Following these efforts, we have constructed curves showing the area of continental flooding based on the most recent paleogeographic maps of Blakey (2003Blakey ( , 2008, Golonka (2007aGolonka ( , b, 2009aGolonka ( , b, 2012, and Scotese (2014aScotese ( , 2014bScotese ( , 2014cScotese ( , 2014dScotese ( , 2014e, 2014f, 2016.…”