Cover News Reporter Tian Lu
In the field of paleontology, scientific scientists around the world have a strong interest in fossils. The earliest suspected biological fossils in Sichuan can be traced back to more than one billion years ago, and the cover news reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Geological Research Institute that the study of paleontological fossils in our province has gone through multiple stages. Up to now, the province has a number of geoparks, providing a large number of "living teaching materials" for fossil research and science popularization.
On September 5, 2010, the State Council promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of Paleontological Fossils. This is an important achievement made by China to strengthen the protection of paleontological fossils, promote the scientific research and rational use of paleontological fossils, since the implementation of January 1, 2011, indiscriminate digging and mining has been effectively controlled, the national awareness of the protection of fossil resources has been continuously enhanced, the construction of science popularization venues across the country has continued to appear, and the demand for fossil protection has also increased. Sichuan belongs to the region with extremely rich fossil resources, and in terms of time, the earliest suspected source biological fossils in Sichuan can be traced back to more than one billion years ago, and the research of paleontological fossils in Sichuan Province has roughly gone through three stages.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the mid-nineteenth century, German geologist Fendinand Paul Withelm Richthofen came to China to conduct geological research and found coral and brachiopod fossils along the Xuanhe River. In 1915, American geologist Laud burke first discovered dinosaur and other vertebrate fossils in Ron County.
In 1936, Professor Yang Zhongjian, a famous Chinese vertebrate paleontologist, and Professor Gan Po, a paleontologist in The East of RongXian County, excavated a complete fossil of a large sauropod dinosaur, EmeiLong. These research results have played a foundational role in the investigation of paleontological fossils in Sichuan Province.
From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the 1980s, the regional geological survey of 1:1 million and 1:200,000 in Sichuan Province systematically investigated the paleontological fossils produced in various layers, and obtained a number of important fossil data. He has published monographs such as "Regional Geology of Sichuan Province" and "Stratigraphy and Paleontology in Eastern Sichuan and Tibet".
The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chongqing Museum of Natural History and Zigong have done a lot of detailed research on dinosaur fossils in the Zigong area, and have achieved gratifying results, from 1979 to 1984, the identification and naming of dinosaur fossils has reached 12 genera and 12 species, of which 9 new genera and 12 new species.
In addition, the research and research of paleontological fossils carried out by experts and scholars from various scientific research institutes and universities in Sichuan has also left a large number of paleontological fossil data, laying the foundation for the later paleontological fossil research work.
Since the 1980s, paleontological research has reached its peak. The 1:250,000 district transfer work and geological survey carried out between the 1990s and 2013 have also accumulated a large amount of data for the study of paleontological fossils.
In 1995, another large sauropod dinosaur was found in Zigong Huidong, and in the same year, a dinosaur fossil burial group of the same era as the Dashanpu dinosaur fossil group was found in Fuxing Township, Rong County.
Since the protection of geological relics was carried out in China in the 1990s, the protection of paleontological fossils in Sichuan Province has also developed rapidly. At the beginning of 2014, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the "Mesozoic Stratigraphic Paleontology Survey in Southwest China", which ended at the end of 2016 and has carried out relevant survey work in the Huili area of Sichuan.
Hundreds of papers have been published on the study of paleontological fossils in Sichuan Province, involving dinosaur-based vertebrate fossils, plant fossils, invertebrate fossils and relic fossils. The Geopark has carried out special research on the characteristic paleontological fossils in its park to improve its own scientific connotation and paleontological fossil scientific research value, and in the process published a large number of relevant monographs, research albums and other publications.
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