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Public Network Poster News Reporter Lv Le Chen Yuyin Intern Guo Ying Reported by Jinan
Recently, the news that 10-year-old primary school students in Jinan found large-scale paleontological fossils in the wild has attracted attention. The reporter of the public network and poster news followed the experts and the primary school students who found the fossils and their parents to the scene to conduct a field visit.
"First of all, to confirm that these fossils found by this child are indeed paleontological fossils, which are about 500 million years old." Du Shengxian, an expert of the Shandong Paleontological Fossil Expert Committee, said. It is understood that the fossils found belong to a genus of trilobites called butterfly worms, and the fossils are mostly structured with heads and tails.
"Because of the special geological structure of the southern mountains, it is relatively easy to find paleontological fossils." Du Shengxian experts said that these fossils are still relatively valuable in scientific research, and finding this fossil can be compared with fossils in other places to judge the age of formation of the strata. "In particular, some fossil-based geoparks, science popularization bases, and observation bases are all natural places for everyone to study science popularization."
At the scene, experts also explained the knowledge of paleontological fossils to the primary school students who found fossils, encouraging him to find more fossil specimens.
