1. The Land of Zigong Dinosaurs: Where is the Land of Dinosaurs?
A famous Chinese paleontologist once said, "There are many dinosaurs in Sichuan, and Zigong is a nest." "The Sichuan Basin is an important source of Dinosaur Fossils from the Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic Era in China (195 million years ago to 137 million years ago), and the dinosaur fossils contained in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, are abundant in number, buried in concentration, numerous categories, and well-preserved, all of which are rare in the world. On the less than square meters of area that has been excavated and cleaned, hundreds of tons of fossils have been excavated. Therefore, Zigong is known as the "hometown of dinosaurs", "dinosaur cemetery" and "former residence of dinosaurs".
Almost all known species of dinosaurs have complete skeletons unearthed in Zigong. What is particularly rare is that a large number of complete dinosaur skulls have been unearthed here. (Dinosaur skulls are fragile, so complete skull fossils are not available.) ）
1. The hometown of Zigong dinosaurs: Why is Zigong Sichuan "the hometown of dinosaurs"?
It is because most of the most famous dinosaurs in China are almost all found in the territory of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, and there are not many of them, but the Zigong Dinosaur Museum is located there.
Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Zigong City, Sichuan Province include Yongchuan Dragon, Heping Chinese Robber Dragon, Jianshe QiLong, Tuojiang Dragon, Huayang Dragon, Emei Dragon, Yandu Dragon, Yang's Mamenxi Dragon, Hechuan Mamenxi Dragon, Giant Thorn Dragon and other famous dinosaur fossils.
Sichuan Zigong Dinosaur Museum:
Zigong Dinosaur Museum is located in the northeast of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, 11 kilometers from the city center.
It is a large-scale site museum built on the spot on the world-famous "Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group Site", another large-scale on-site museum in China after the Banpo site and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit of Qin Shi Huang, and also the first professional dinosaur museum in China and one of the three major dinosaur site museums in the world.
Covering an area of more than 66,000 square meters, the museum has a collection of fossil specimens that include almost all known dinosaur species from the Jurassic period 201-145 million years ago, and is one of the largest collections and displays of Jurassic dinosaur fossils in the world.
It was rated by National Geographic magazine as "the best dinosaur museum in the world".