2008-12-17

Manas Junggar crocodile - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Qingshuihe Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture is the largest tributary of the Manas River, a total length of 60 km, is located in the middle of the Tianshan, even according to Khabir Hill Ga (Kazakh, commonly known as the Tian Shan) Mountain, about 46 km from the town, river water Kazakhstan Family resident of the township government. River water has always been rich with well-known and jasper. "Xinjiang Zhi map" Industry , Said: "Manas River-ching, production jasper, named River water, dark green jade-green Pitt, elegant, Pu (that is, the stone-pack) are great emphasis on a few pounds." River water in the upper reaches of the Manas River Tianshan Deep, the summer of 1990, I have the opportunity to go sightseeing. Here more than 2800 meters above sea level, at the mountain, Zhongshan, former . Imposing steep mountains, magnificent, gurgling water, soft and thick green grass, is a beautiful area in the summer heat is a good place. However, the river water has also been unearthed in the ancient crocodile fossils, but little known. In 1974, by the geological staff here, now known as the Crocodile Junggar Manas (Dz ngarisuchusmanacensis), an Asia of a crocodile. Its features: long and narrow lower jaw, kissed the Ministry of Light instead of contraction, the Minister of suture under the collar, the main component of bone by the teeth. Insert reach splint bone at the base of the suture: the Department of suture limited to the first 8 or 9 teeth Department. Mandibular teeth separated from each other On each side there are 13 to 14, nearly equal to the distance between teeth: Dog-shaped teeth, expansion of the base, there are two canine-like teeth before the tooth. Conical teeth, has a radiation pattern, formed on both sides of the ridge edge, the structure similar to the Asian crocodile. Mandibular Pattern sparse and generally small crocodile is a species of the subfamily than the lower jaw appears to be fine. A late Eocene era. Manas Junggar Has been documented in the Chinese Academy of Sciences of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Institute for the preparation of the "Chinese vertebrate fossils Manual" (Revised Edition) 173, 55.4 Plate, Science and Technology Publishing House published in 1979. This crocodile fossil only in Hengyang in Hunan Province of China, Nanxiong in Guangdong, Maoming and Inner Mongolia have been found, Xinjiang Manas only one place, very valuable.

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