To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Paleontological Fossil Exhibition Hall of the Kulun Flag Museum was officially opened to the public on October 1.
Kulun Banner is the famous "Hometown of Chinese Andai Art", "Hometown of Chinese Buckwheat Culture" and "Hometown of Chinese Mongolian Medicine Culture", and Kulun Town, where the flag government is located, is a "famous historical and cultural town in China" and "a famous town with Chinese characteristics for landscape tourism", enjoying the reputation of "three townships and two towns". Under the situation that the Kulun Banner Committee government has vigorously implemented the party's principles and policies of enriching the people and vigorously promoted the cause of cultural tourism, the Kulun Banner has successively excavated and sorted out the paleontological fossils of the Quaternary mammoth and woolly rhinoceros biota unearthed in the Kulun area.
Mammoth fossils
Mammoth, also known as the mammoth, is an elephant family, living in the grasslands and hills of the Gaussé zone 3 million to 10,000 years ago, similar in size to the current Asian elephant, generally 5 meters tall, weighing about 10 tons, with fine long hairs that can resist the tight plug, and feeds on grass and shrub leaves. Mammoths are social animals that eat a large amount of food, and in order to maintain a huge body weighing up to 10 tons, they spend two-thirds of their lives grazing, and the general lifespan is 70 years. It ruled the northern hemisphere for millions of years, after which it divided into two major species, elephants and mammoths. Mammoths became extinct about 11,000 years ago, and elephants have been breeding ever since.
Fossil woolly rhinoceros
Woolly rhinoceros, scientific name: Coelodonta antiquitatis, also known as long-haired rhinoceros, is an extinct rhinoceros, belonging to the genus Rhinoceros, belonging to the subfamily Bihorn rhinoceros of the family Rhinoceros, with an average body length of 3.5 to 4 meters, a shoulder height of about 2 meters, and an average weight of 4.5 tons, which is named after the thick hairs all over the body. The woolly rhinoceros has two long, flattened horns that can push through the snow to graze. It also has a thick layer of fur and fat, which is used to keep warm in cold environments. The woolly rhinoceros lived during the Pleistocene, the same age as the true mammoth, and survived the Ice Age. It is active in northern Eurasia and lives with its giant rhinoceros plate-toothed rhinoceros, which belongs to the same family as the true rhinoceros family. The woolly rhinoceros was once a hunting object for Paleolithic humans, and its extinction date was only 10,000 years from the 21st century, making it the latest prehistoric rhinoceros to become extinct. The Sumatran rhinoceros, the closest relative of the extant rhinos, is still alive in Southeast Asia, but is a critically endangered species on the brink of extinction.
Mammoth ivory fossils
In June 2019, the fossil excavated in Xiaoningwa Village, Liujiazi Town, Kulun Banner, was identified by experts as the largest woolly rhinoceros found in Inner Mongolia so far, with a geological age of the Quaternary Late Pleistocene (126,000 to 10,000 years), a young individual with a total length of more than 5 meters and an individual integrity of more than 95%, which is a treasure in the surviving rhinoceros fossils and has good collection, research and display value.
The successful excavation of paleontological fossils fully shows that the Kulun area is active with a large number of paleontologists in the 300,000 to 10,000 years of age, which is a fertile land full of vitality. The reappearance of paleontological fossils has also added a heavy stroke to the cultural tourism cause of Kulun Banner, which will become another city famous for Quaternary paleontology in the future, following the Manchurian Zagannuoer (the hometown of Chinese mammoths) and Heilongjiang Daqing (China's first Quaternary paleontology museum).