About 4 million years ago, coral fossils were found in a construction site in Zhuzhou

(Reporter of Zhuzhou Evening News/Yi Chuyu Wang Fang) On July 19, according to Mr. Zhang, the reporter came to a construction site near the Yunlong Experimental School in Changjun and saw the ancient fossils described by Mr. Zhang. Adults, about 50 cm wide; the surface of the stone is covered with trees -like things. Mr. Zhang pointed at the conch and "tree root" sample that he was taken from the stone that "these two things should be ancient fossils."

Ancient coral fossil found by Mr. Zhang. Interviewee confidence

It is reported that in the ancient muddy discipline (419 million to 3.6 billion years ago), Hunan except a long and narrow ancient land belt connected to Pingjiang, Changde, Yiyang, Fuling, Jishou and other places today. Zhuzhou was undoubtedly a sea of ​​oceans at the time.

The reporter brought the sample to Hunan Province's hydrogeological geological and environmental geological survey and monitoring. Professor Yu Yangchun said that Mr. Zhang discovered that the stones that were indeed a limestone containing coral worm fossils, which was about 4 million years ago; coral worm fossils were distributed in scattered. Later, it has a certain collection value.

Source: Zhuzhou Evening News

Review: Luo Xiaoling

Edit: Chen Chen

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