Recently, the dinosaur footprint research team of China University of Geosciences (Beijing) found a number of well-preserved dinosaur footprints in Huangjing Town, Gulin County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, which also aroused the attention of the Japanese media, and it is interesting that they named it Eubrontes nobitai (Eubrontes nobitai), you read it correctly, it is indeed a tribute to the male protagonist of Doraemon, Nobita (Daxiong).
According to Xing Lida, a paleontologist who is one of the participants, as early as July 2020, there was more rainfall in the townships of Gulin, Sichuan, which repeatedly caused flash floods. When the villagers cleaned up the river, a stone slab in the ditch that had been washed away by the water attracted the attention of the villagers. It turned out that the surface of the stone after the turning over was very flat, and the 4 identically spaced footprints on the surface caught his eye.
The footprints are evenly sized, with 3 fat toes per footprint arranged tightly, and the whole shape is like a small goldfish swimming in the water. The villagers of Goldfish Creek believe that these footprints are the reason why the stream is called Goldfish Creek.
Scholars and experts heard the news, and indeed found a number of well-preserved dinosaur footprints, which is of great help for us to understand the paleoecology of the Cretaceous Sichuan Basin, the paper was published in the "Journal of Paleogeography" published on the 5th. The most important discovery of the Goldfish Creek Footprints is a new species that records the Footprints of Eubrontes.
The expert group named it Eubrontes nobitai, the species name was given to Nobita Nobitai, and "Nobita's Dinosaur" (1980) and "Nobita's New Dinosaur" (2020) are excellent dinosaur-themed movies that make many young readers like dinosaurs.
According to the expert team, the footprint of Theropod is a theropod footprint form, which is the only species in China that can have similarities with the Jurassic Rayosaurus footprint model species, and it is estimated that the tracer speed of the Footprint of the Wild Beechosaurus is about 4 meters Long, and it is inferred that its tracer may be a medium-sized Allosaurus or sharktooth dinosaur.
The footprints of these real thunder dragons resemble blistered goldfish, but in fact, the eyes and head of the so-called "goldfish" are actually the heel marks of theropods, and the swimming tails are three-toed toe marks. This discovery proves once again that dinosaur footprints were involved in the formation of many Chinese folklore.