China's Eight Famous Dinosaur Fossils_China's Eight Famous Dinosaur Fossils

You may all know about dinosaurs, but I believe you don’t have much specific understanding of them. Let us learn more about them through some dinosaur fossils.

1. Heilongjiang Manchurian dragon

China's first dragon

Heilongjiang Manchusaurus was discovered in Jiayin, Heilongjiang Province in 1902 and is known as "China's first dragon". Later, the fossil was transported to Russia and named Heilongjiang Manchusaurus in 1930. The holotype fossil of Heilongjiang Manchusaurus is now in the Geological Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

2. Shishi's Pan-footed Dragon

China's first sauropod dinosaur

Discopodosaurus was discovered in Mengyin, Shandong Province from 1922 to 1923 by Austrian Steinski and Chinese geologist Tan Xichou. The fossil was transported to Uppsala University in Sweden and named Discopodus in 1929. Piedosaurus is the first sauropod dinosaur in China.

3. Xu's Lufenglong

one of the oldest dinosaurs

Lufengosaurus xu is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur that lived in southwestern China during the early to middle Jurassic period. The fossil specimen was found in Lufeng, Yunnan Province, China. Lufengosaurus xu is one of the oldest dinosaurs discovered in China. Lufengosaurus Xu is China's first mounted dinosaur fossil (mounted and exhibited in Beibei, Chongqing in 1941). It was researched and named in 1941 by Academician Yang Zhongjian, the founder of Chinese vertebrate paleontology. It is the founder of the China Paleontology Museum. The treasure of the town hall.

4. Spiny-nosed Qingdao dragon

Crested duck-billed dinosaur fossil

Spiny-nosed Qingdaosaurus is the most famous crested duck-billed dinosaur fossil discovered in my country, and is also the first complete dinosaur fossil discovered in my country. The existing specimens are preserved in the China Museum of Paleontology. Because it was found in Xigou, Jingangkou Village, Laiyang City, near Qingdao, and has a spiny nose-shaped crest on its head, it got its name. The strata where the spinous-nosed Qingdaosaurus fossils are located date from the late Cretaceous period.

5. Hechuan Mamenchisaurus

The first dinosaur fossil discovered after the founding of New China

One of the largest sauropod dinosaurs discovered in China, its fossil was found at the Maming River Ferry in Yibin City. It has been scientifically identified as belonging to the order "Sauropod Equus". This animal has a total length of about 22 meters and a body height of nearly 7 meters. It The neck is extremely long, equivalent to half the body length. Not only is each cervical vertebra that makes up the neck long, but the number of cervical vertebrae is as many as 19, which is the most among sauropods. In addition, the neck is also the longest among all dinosaurs. (the longest neck can reach 12.1 meters). Compared with the cervical vertebrae, there are relatively few dorsal vertebrae, sacral vertebrae and coccygeal vertebrae.

6. Giant Shandong Dragon

Dinosaur that walked upright on two legs

Shantungosaurus giganteus is a species of ornithopod dinosaur, Hadrosauridae, and genus Shantungosaurus. It is herbivorous, 8 meters high and 15 meters long, with a flat head and no crest. It is the representative of the flat-headed duck-billed dinosaur. Lived in the late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era. The fossil specimen was found in Shandong Province, China.

7. Taibai Huayang Dragon

The world’s most primitive and best-preserved Stegosaurus discovered

Taibai Huayangosaurus is a medium-sized primitive stegosaurus with a body length of 4.3 meters. Its main characteristics are a large and thick head, triangular shape, a short neck, and its forelimbs are much shorter than its hind legs, but it walks on all fours. The two rows of bony plates on the back are relatively small and changeable in shape, and there are two pairs of plate-like tail spines at the tail end. Existing specimens are displayed in the Zigong Dinosaur Museum and Chongqing Museum.

8. Microraptor Gu's

The first known flying dinosaurs

The holotype specimen of Microraptor Gu's is only about 77 centimeters in length, and its diet is carnivorous. The trunk is relatively short, only 44% to 50% of the length of the hind limbs, and the tail is longer than the body; its radius bone has a prominent biceps tubercle, the first finger of the forelimb is very short, a single sternum is flat and large, and the pubic bone is strongly curved. The tibial arch can distinguish it from Microraptor zhao.

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