Qamdo Beijing January 16
News, China, the United States, Canada, paleontologists announced yesterday that they found near Qamdo in Tibet huge number of fossils of dinosaur footprints, dinosaur tracks this is the first record in Tibet, has an important paleontological significance.
fossil researchers, the Canadian Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta, the authority of a paleontologist, Professor Curry (Philip J. Currie) and Xing Lida Ph.D., Utah Dixie State College's Harris Professor (Jerald D . Harris), published this month,
Qamdo location in between Lhasa and Chengdu, which is snow-covered plateau, another world is locked in the depths of a pure land mountain range, pregnant with mystery, pregnant with the grand, ancient and unique breeds Plateau civilization. Here is the Tibetan epic
Qamdo famous In the mud left behind on the stamp. This relic was discovered in early 1999, when the project team is building the town of Qamdo Qamdo Bangda Airport road, when the road blasting
a move that local people are frightened that mountain, mountain huff go into exile, leaving behind the The legend of King Gesar in Tibetan is the incarnation of Guru Padmasambhava, and his horse Xu, Goodness and Restraining evil, promote Buddhism, spread culture, to become proud of the Tibetan people the enduring hero, world-famous Wang Biography
Since then, the local believers will be The Government, in order to protect this Qamdo at ancient sites, are arranged around a large iron fence footprints, and footprints on the smear of the protective agent.
the next few years, Xing Lida, who examined the remains of many times, after a detailed field survey and analysis, the final confirmation of these the shape of the foot, if you look upside down to more like it! This is a large footprint is considered to be the reason a giant footprint. Qamdo
wonderful group of dinosaurs
present, after the analysis of paleontologists have been exposed sauropod tracks at least eight pairs of lines, divided into three, basically the same direction of travel. Classified as a paleontologist and have the footprint of Brontosaurus tracks (Brontopodus). Brontosaurus tracks are a class of well-known dinosaur tracks in the world has discovered more than half of sauropod dinosaur footprints belong to this category.
Interestingly, the footprints found near the rich mud cracks and ripple marks. geological time perspective, Qamdo was on stage at the turn of the land and sea, these large dinosaurs are walking by the sea might do!
then, specifically what kind of sauropod dinosaurs left a Curry professor told us the answer: class may take up to 18 meters! This is almost equal to the length of two buses!
the footprints of the dragon-shaped class to Qamdo As previously always thought that dinosaurs Qamdo sauropod fauna and fauna in the Sichuan Basin has a similar composition, but the Sichuan Basin in the Jurassic period and without any dragon-shaped dinosaur, which shows the two animals group not only similarities, there are important differences.
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