New dinosaur fossils discovered in Inner Mongolia
Workers are fencing off an isolated strip in northernChina's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in a bid to protect a new site of fossilizeddinosaur bones.
Liang Chunxi, from the Land Resources Bureau in Wulate Rear Banner in Bayan NurCity, said local authorities have invited experts to the area to evaluate the remains,which were found by local herdsmen.
An extensive region of the site is called Bayan Manduhu, where paleontologists hadearlier found fossils of the club-tailed ankylosaurus and protoceratops, a dinosaur withfrill on its head.
An area of 3,200 hectares of the region has been recognized as a regional naturereserve since 2003, after hundreds of dinosaur remains were discovered.
The rock formation that dates back 75 million to 120 million years has already beenknown as one of the world's richest veins for dinosaur fossils. It is also the only site inChina that conserves fossils of late Cretaceous pinacosaurus and oviraptorosaur.
The reserve seating 1,500 meters above the sea level is sparsely populated.
Liang said local authorities are applying for state-level geological relics protection forthe reserve in order to combat illegal exploration and trading of animal fossils on thehigh land.
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