China found 60 dinosaur populations

Chinese and American archaeologists have found about 60 fossil dinosaur populations distributed in at least four fossil sites in the Ma Lang mountain area - the intersection between Shandong province and China's Jiangsu province. National.

This dinosaur footprint ensemble belongs to two sauropod dinosaurs and theropod dinosaurs.

Skeleton of sauropod dinosaur.

According to scientists, finding many fossilized populations of dinosaur footprints in a narrow range is a rare event in the world.

The results of fossil analysis of dinosaur footprints show that, in the period of Cretaceous period, Ma Lang mountain area has a humid climate, very developed vegetation, dinosaurs grow and develop strongly.

Many dinosaurs have left footprints in the marshes next to the rivers. Over time, dinosaur footprints will dry and bury in sandy soil, undergoing geological changes for thousands of years, eventually turning into fossil footprints.

Finding a large number of fossil dinosaur footprints in the Ma Lang mountain area to a certain extent has added a shortage of fossil dinosaur footprints in China.

Besides, this finding has an important meaning to help archaeologists study the Ky Phan Trang period in Ma Lang mountain area.

Currently, archaeologists are continuing to delve into this newly discovered dinosaur footprint fossil population.