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Dinosaur Egg Fossils Unearthed in Shaanxi
Qin Jian
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????Seventeen fossilized
dinosaur eggs were recently unearthed in the Laohugou (Tiger Gutter)
area of Shangzhou, Shaanxi Province, their diameters ranging from
13 to 15 cm. Experts believe they are about 70 -100 million years.
????Geng Liufu, a 55-year-old man of the Bayi village, Chenyuan Office
of Shangzhou, first discovered the fossils. Last March, when he
was cutting pigweed in Laohugou, he spotted the eggs lying in a
circle embedded in the red sandstone.
????According to experts, the fossils belong to the round egg family
previously only found in southern France. The location is about
300 km from Xixia county, Henan Province, which houses the most
dinosaur eggs in the world. The difference is that fossilized eggs
in Xixia were dug from the active sand layer, while those in Laohugou
were inlaid in sandstone.
????Laohugou is in the same mountain system of the Danjiang River
Valley to the south of Qinling Mountain with Zhangdi village of
Shangzhou , where dinosaur footprints were found in 1984, and He
village of Danfeng county, where dinosaur eggs were found in 1997.
????The latest discovery provides a new source of data for scientists
studying the geological structure of Qinling Mountain and the lives
of dinosaurs who once ranged the land there.
(Wenhui Daily)
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