The Chinese scientific research team discovered dinosaur fossils for the first time in Fujian Province.It is confirmed that it is confirmed as a newly discovered species and named it "Strange Fujian Dragon".
According to CCTV News report, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Ancient Human Research (referred toFor this fossil species, the world's most later and southernmost bird -wing dinosaurs in the world are 148 million to 150 million years ago, and they are named "Strange Fujian Dragon".This result was published on the international academic journal nature (Nature) on September 6.
It is reported that the fossil found in the Zhenghe Daxi Basin in the northern Fujian in October 2022 that after nearly a year of repair and analysis, the research team believes that the new species of the new species discovered this time are similar to the athletic bird.The hind limbs are relatively slender, and the body is between the dinosaurs and birds. It is a type of dinosaurs who are good at running or living at the water.
Researcher Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that the bird -wing dinosaur fossils found around the world are very scarce, and only three locations have been preserved, one of which is in the Yanliao biological group in Hebei, China,Another discovery of the other in Germany, Sauren Hoffen, and the strange Fujianlong, represented the third.
Xu Liming, a senior engineer of the Fujian Provincial Institute of Geological Survey, introduced that the discovery of the strange Fujianlong discovered the gap in time and space of bird origin, and provided important information for the study and evolution of birds.
In addition to the strange Fujian dragon, the inspection team also discovered a large number of preserved reptile fossils in the same period as the strange Fujian dragon, including aquatic/semi -aquatic turtles and lift dragons. Researchers willIt is named "Political and Animal Group", which is also the latest animal group in the world's most known Jurassic and the southernmost geographical locations in the world.
