More than 4,300 dinosaur footprints!I found it here →

Recently, the Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources has released the results of the ancient creature fossil survey, announcing that it was found in the south of Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou to find more than 9,000 square meters of dinosaur footprint fossils. There were more than 4,300 dinosaur footprints, and the number of exposed area and the number of footprints nationwide. Next, follow our reporters to explore the "dragon traces" on Yan Zhao's land.

This dinosaur footprint fossil point is located on a hillside in Xuanhua District. On hard rocks, dense dinosaur footprints are distributed. Some of these footprints are similar to circular, and some are similar to the shape of animal claws, and they are very clear.

Sun Xiao, the chief engineer of the Geological Investigation Institute of the Land and Mineral Land and Mineral Land and Mineral Land Mineral Land Mineral Land Mining and Minerations, participated in the survey of the paleontological project throughout the process. Sun Xiao told reporters that they have completed the 3D image collection and footprint casting of the Xuanhua District Dinosaur Footprints, and have formed detailed information to prepare for science popularization and scientific research in the future.

With Sun Xiao's on -site investigation, there are two dinosaur research experts from Beijing -Li Jianjun, a researcher at Beijing Natural Museum, and Xing Lida, associate professor of China University of Geosciences. Looking at a stream of dinosaur footprints with complete storage, clear structure, and densely distributed, both experts expressed shock. Li Jianjun, a researcher at the Beijing Nature Museum, said that the area and footprint of the fossils of the dinosaur footprints are in the country, ranking first in the country.

Geological investigators' measures on the geological age of the scene showed that the rock layer where these dinosaur footprints are located have been 150 million years old, which belongs to the era of Jurassic to Baiji. Through experts' identification and classification of traces, there are 4 kinds of dinosaur footprints, and one of which is a newly discovered dinosaur type. It is named Wang's Asian dragon. Right and right, at the top of the local food chain.

Wang's Asian Dragon Foot Trail Plaster Model

Why does the most domestic number of dinosaurs appear in Zhangjiakou Xuanhua? Li Jianjun, a researcher at the Beijing Nature Museum, speculated that the scene of the footprint had a large number of forests and water sources more than 100 million years ago, because there were a large number of wooden stone remains on the ground, indicating that pine and cypress plants were very lush, so a lot of implant dinosaurs and dinosaurs and Carnivorous dinosaurs gathered here. Experts found three different sizes and interval planting dinosaurs at the scene. According to footprint judgments, they are relatively slow, without running or hunting, they live and drink water here.

Wood fossil remains

Dinosaur tail drag traces

Studies have shown that before hundreds of millions of years, Zhangjiakou and Chengde area were the paradise for frequent dinosaurs. In recent years, new dinosaur fossils and dinosaur footprints have been discovered in the Zhangjiakou and Chengde areas in the northern part of Hebei Province. The release of the research results of dinosaur footprints in Xuanhua area is a microcosm of new progress in the research of Hebei Dinosaur Ruins in recent years. The discovery of this footprint group has important value for the study of the correlation between paleontological communities. Sun Xiao, chief engineer of the Geological Investigation Institute of Land and Minerations in Hebei Province, said that in the future, these dinosaur footprint fossils can be confirmed with skeletal fossils to better restore the living conditions, living habits, and living environment of dinosaurs.

The Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources has always attached importance to the protection of paleontology fossils. In April 2020, after the first discovery of Xuanhua Dinosaur footprints, the experts were organized to conduct on -site verification investigations and reported to the Ministry of Natural Resources in a timely manner, and strengthened the protection of the dinosaur footprint fossil group here. After more than 2 years of hard work, the results of the investigation of the Xuanhua Dinosaur Football Group are public.

Liu Caixin, director of the Mineral Resources Protection and Supervision Department of the Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources, said that in the next step, it will actively coordinate local governments and relevant departments, further scientific planning, development, utilization, and protecting ancient biological fossil resources, and strive for support for national, local and social forces. Promote the inheritance of natural heritage and the development of the ecological cultural industry, and contribute to the construction of a modern economic province and a beautiful Hebei.

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