Be treated as ingredients of dinosaurs

Be treated as herbs www.thebeijingnews.com dinosaurs · 2007-8-5-0: 14: 33 ·

Source: Beijing News

The first half of this year, China's ancient reptile research community is one of the most important event is Henan Cretaceous dinosaur groups to explore research results (first phase) of the news conference.

There's a new Maronite really make people excited.

People since ancient times has become the fossil smash "keel" traditional Chinese medicine.

But these fossils are Cenozoic mammals not dinosaur fossil. And the local population in ruyang, hit, but it turned out to be a real dinosaur bones. It is said that, as the dinosaur ruyang "keel" has a long history, legend, generations, their scattered small-scale mining excavation has also has 50 years of history. According to the village of ruyang three Tuen Xin man describes Cao macro, only he acquired the "keel" may 5 tons.

From the role, ruyang keel quality really is not high, because here the degree of dinosaur fossil is very high, the basic no medicinal value, so people in selling the keel, the fossil dig out and drop it into pieces, only a hole, the sale of parts, and others are all lost.

In June 2006, the local government initiative to find provincial geological Museum, the Museum and national research institutions to work together to develop scientific, large-scale survey finally carried out.

A Dinosaur Park is finally coming.

This fossil publishing is the most eye-catching, followed by the yellow Dragon is luanchuan stolen Dragon, the last is small armoured vehicle like the Central Plains Dragon.

May be the Ankylosaurus class are more "low key", so everyone's eyes much swept it.

As everyone knows, this is not only look very handsome Central Plains Dragon in China dinosaur history is important.

Ankylosaurus earliest fossils found in the European Middle Jurassic strata, and almos

t all the Jurassic Ankylosaurus fossil are found in Europe. In the ensuing Cretaceous, Ankylosaurus was able to really flourish, and clearly divided into two types: lighter nodules Dragon class and very heavy rear armor Dragon class.

Nodular Dragon class live mainly in Europe, North America and Australia.

In the early and Mid Cretaceous, their type and quantity of the richest. By contrast, the back of the Dragon class prosperous period later, is in the late Cretaceous. They are mainly distributed in North America, Europe and Asia on several continents. In recent years, more than one area seen Ankylosaurus fossils, but straight to the back of the Dragon class. Our country has not found evidence of nodules Dragon class Ankylosaurus, only in 2001, Xu XING reported in a suspected Western juvenile Sarcoidosis lung class Ankylosaurus fossils of the individual, but there is no conclusive evidence. Therefore, domestic research dinosaur experts believe that Sarcoidosis lung class live mainly in Europe, North America and Australia, China has no nodules Dragon class ankylosaurus. Until the Central Plains Dragon named, it broke the Chinese have no understanding of sarcoidosis lung class filled up the blank of Chinese Dinosaur discovered, nodular Dragon's migration, evolution provides important new materials.

The Central Plains Dragon is local people aware of the local mining excavation of keel for dinosaur fossils, new discoveries of fossils from the dew point, had been given by the local villagers spontaneous daemon for more than a month, from the basic point is not corrupted.

Discover the specimen is almost complete skulls, some cervical, dorsal vertebrae, tail vertebrae, a complete humerus, ischium, and pubis, dorsal fin and a large number of deck, fossils from the overall saving relatively complete. It grew up to width of the skull, vertebral end no tail-end of the hammer, kiss-a-tip, rendering the typical nodules Dragon class Ankylosaurus characteristics. Rack recovery, body length 5 m, is so far the only found conclusive evidence of large nodule Dragon class ankylosaurus.

□ XING Lida (Beijing paleontologists)