Figure 2 in The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions

Figure 2. Areconstruction of a possible configuration of land in the Eocene-early Oligocene, 35-33 myBP. The eastward moving West Indies seafloor plate overrides the westward moving American plate that descends into a trench east of the Lesser Antilles. The subducted rocks are the source of the volcanic eruptions that have formed the present islands of the Lesser Antilles. The indicated emergent land is hypothetical and no clear evidence exists to indicate that beetles existed on this land and persisted to the present. The outlines show the present Lesser Antilles, but they did not exist at the time shown for the reconstruction. Modified from Iturralde-Vinent and MacPhee (2006) and Genaro (2008).