Ditch the dinosaurs unearthed in Xinjiang, "Asia Dragon" shipped to Beijing
The picture shows the excavation site
URUMQI, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet Chunhui) Scientists for the first time in Xinjiang, China carried out large-scale odd _set_s of dinosaur fossils was temporarily mining activities has ended recently unearthed "Asia Dragon" was also transported to Beijing, repair work.
During the 46 days of the mining activities, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, experts unearthed a body length of 35 meters of the herbivorous sauropod dinosaur fossils, the first in Asia Dragon. This dinosaur is only 15 meters on the long neck, the neck is the world's longest dinosaur, unearthed at the same time there is a 1.58 m long sauropod femur, which is the world's largest and most complete sauropod thigh bone. Currently these dinosaur fossils wrapped in plaster pack 105 is transported to Beijing on his way.
Xinjiang Qitai dinosaur ditch about 5 km, is located in the hinterland of the Junggar Basin Mountain Oilfield fire 60 kilometers northeast, is a north-south valley, because two of the last century have unearthed dinosaur fossils named. |
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