Scientists from China and abroad announced on Tuesday the discovery of a very rare fossil of a freshwater aquatic reptile. The fossil was found in the stratum of the Early Cretaceous period in Northeast China s Liaoning Province.
A group of trace fossils have been discovered for the first time in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province which proved to belong to horseshoe crabs and fish dating back to 200 million years ago, expanding the geographical and temporal distribution of horseshoe crab trace fossils discovered in China, an international team of paleontologists announced on Sunday.
Footprint fossils of dinosaurs from the Jurassic period were discovered in Zigui Basin in Central China’s Hubei Province for the first time, which has enriched the species of dinosaur fossils in Hubei and means significantly to the composition of dinosaur fauna in the region, a research team of both Chinese and foreign scientists announced on Friday.