Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Zhoukoudian fish fossil origin - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Zhoukoudian fish fossil origin - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Zhoukoudian fossils of fish production in the South China ape-man site about 1.5 kilometers. Than about 60 meters above the river bed. Is a source of freshwater fish fossils. Zhoukoudian fossils of fish production for a bathtub-shaped pocket of the heap, as the yellow layer of fine sand and coarse sand and small Honghe thin layer of gravel, fish fossils in the prolific The bottom layer of fine sand. After the founding of the PRC in 1933 and repeated excavations, a total of more than 2,000 fossils found in fish tail, the distribution of dense, with some overlap. Most of the reservations head, tail, fins of the original shape, and some still preserved scales. There are varieties of short-head carp, I put barbed Loach, Yunnanilus Loach and Sichuan. For the first two Genocide, for the latter two species are now, Beijing is the study of geological changes in the geographical kind of important information.

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