2009-01-12

Zigong Dinosaur Museum - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Zigong Dinosaur Museum's appearance, much like a huge rock caves, peculiar aesthetic style, our country is following the Xi'an Banpo Museum, the Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, after the construction of another large-scale professional on-site museum. It covers an area of 25,000 square meters, the display area of 3600 square meters, is divided into three tiers. Shop display in the mountains for fear Fossils buried at the scene and dinosaur fossils unearthed in the main.

The exhibition is divided into three parts:

The first part focuses on dinosaur-related and knowledge-based, such as biological evolution, the fossils, geological age, classification and evolution of dinosaurs and so on.

The second part of the main referral Shop the mountains of various types of dinosaur fossils. They displayed in the large spacious room fitted frame, there are several vice-complete dinosaur skeletons, "Tianfu Omeisaurus" is the Office of the most eye-catching giant. It was the first branch of the slender neck of the Lao Gao, from the ground about 10 meters, 20 meters long body, thick body, tail Very long legs forward, heads held high standing. In addition to the hall, "Tianfu Omeisaurus", or a ferocious can eat "Tianfu Omeisaurus", "building gas-long" skeleton, but it is only 45 meters long body. Other progress of the original phase-in sauropod dinosaurs - Lee Shunosaurus, small body, two-legged walking Ornithopod - Yandusaurus more teeth, compared with the early primitive Dragon Sword - Taibai Huayang Long, Long flying in the air and water travel ferocious carnivorous plesiosaur, and so on.

The third part is the burial site of dinosaurs. To the people here to show the large-scale excavation of the site. Museum of Zigong in the world and the United States Dinosaur National Park, Canada Dinosaur Park along with a dinosaur known as the world's three major museums. Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong City, Sichuan Province and the mountain shop.

Zigong, Sichuan not only the famous salt, but also an important source of dinosaur fossils. Along the Jurassic (135 million -2.1 million years ago) terrestrial strata of considerable development, the dinosaur fossils buried in the early Jurassic period, the mid-level land, and this period of the dinosaur fossils of dinosaur research in the world is weak Links, so the Zigong Dinosaur fossils in the world for the study of the evolution of dinosaurs, provides a wealth of Key of the raw data. According to the geological study, the Jurassic period, with the Zigong is the open lake area, the hot climate, Fengmao water, towering trees, the dinosaur is the ideal place to live, shop and the mountain is the calm sandy shoal in the death As well as the river was moving from a distance of dinosaurs Wrecks have been buried in the sand on the bank together. To the accumulation of silt and the remains buried in the turn for a very long period of time, after one or two billion years after the long years of backlog, and finally see today the formation of the fossil-bearing sandstone layer.

Click for more china-tourism-landscape.blogspot.com

No comments: