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Dashanpu Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Fossils Site

The site of Dashanpu dinosaur Group in Zigong was selected into the second batch of 100 Geological Heritage Sites List of the International Union of Geological Sciences.Its number is 137, which is the first place in Sichuan and one tenth of China to be selected as the Geological Heritage Site of the International Geological Union.

"Geological heritage is a precious non-renewable material that faithfully records the evolution history of the Earth 4.6 billion years, and is of great value to carry out research on geographical environment changes, mineral resources exploration, and the origin of life." A geological heritage site is a key area with geological remains or processes of international significance." At the press conference, Zhang Jianping, vice chairman of the International Geological Heritage Committee of the International Geological Union and professor of China University of Geosciences (Beijing), introduced.

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“The most concentrated Middle Jurassic dinosaurs site that demonstrates high vertebrate diversity."In the column of "One sentence summary of the reason for selection" in the application form, the Dashapu dinosaur fossils site used 12 English words to "speak" for itself.

Dinosaurs are human's eternal wonder and regret for ancient times.

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This is one of the densest sites of Mid-Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Up to now, more than 200 dinosaurs and other vertebrates have been excavated, which not only fills the shortage of dinosaur fossils in the Middle Jurassic in the history of dinosaur evolution in the world, but also provides extremely valuable fossil materials for the study of the early systematic evolution of dinosaurs in the world: Such as the world's known most primitive true sauropod dinosaurs - Li Shusaurus, the world has reliable records of the most primitive new sauropod dinosaurs - Dongshi Dashu dragon, the world's recognized most primitive, the most complete preservation of stegosaurus - Taibai Huayangsaurus and so on.

Zigong, the world geopark has 103 geological relics, including 5 world-class geological relics resources and 7 national ones. At the same time, it has built the Zigong World Geopark geological relic protection information database, fossil specimens and cultural relics database, and implemented key projects such as the digital protection and display and utilization project of the Dinosaur Museum and the digital protection and utilization project of precious cultural relics of the Salt Industry History Museum, using digital and intelligent means to vividly tell the "Chinese story" of geological heritage protection.