In this remote village in Yangdu Village, Pan County, western Guizhou, Professor Hao Weicheng of the Department of Geology of Peking University and his colleagues dug up ichthyosaur fossils dating back about 240 million years, the earliest group of marine reptile fossils found in Guizhou so far.
As early as the Triassic Period, it was once a vast ocean. Ichthyosaurs, ferocious marine reptiles that predate dinosaurs, dominate this underwater world.
The underwater world of Guizhou in the Triassic Period is mysterious and noisy: a variety of sea lilies "bloom" everywhere, the bloated wooden shield tooth dragon practices swimming skills, the sea dragon plays and sings on the shore, and the fish dragon rampages through the sea.
This fish dragon from Guanling, Guizhou, is more than 4 meters long and is the treasure of the Geological Museum of Peking University. However, the 4-meter-long ichthyosaur is only a small man, and Guanling has unearthed 13-meter-long ichthyosaur fossils.
In Yangzhan Village, a villager carefully removed a fossil of a 2-meter-long "Great Guizhou Dragon" phantom dragon that he had excavated in his early years.
This is a fossil of a mixed ichthyosaur unearthed in Pan County, with a long head and a short neck, and a body similar to the current dolphin, which is the shortest of the ichthyosaur family, and the longest is only more than two meters.
Produced in the green shade village of Xingyi Dingxiao Town, Guizhou, the Hu's Guizhou dragon is only a few tens of centimeters long and slender, it is difficult to imagine what kind of disaster they suffered in that year, so that these 7 Guizhou dragons that seem to be gathering together suddenly lost their fresh lives.
This piece of 3 fossils of Hu's Guizhou dragon is well preserved, vividly leaving behind the physical characteristics of Guizhou dragon: petite body, slender and curved neck, sharp teeth, and strong limbs.
These are two Xingyi Asian scaly fish that seem to be living and dying, and they live in the same era as the Xingyi Guizhou dragon.
Ammonite is one of the most complete and advanced invertebrates in the ocean, and the ammonite fossils in the Guanling fauna are very rich and well preserved, and the shell decoration pattern is clearly visible.
Staff at the Geological Museum of Peking University are repairing the fossils.
Repairing a two- or three-meter-long ichthyosaur fossil from the "drum bag" and revealing the authenticity usually takes at least half a year.
The beautiful sea lily is not a plant, but an echinoderm, and even if it is fossilized, it still sways like a lily.