Erenhot: Inner Mongolia Township and tea dinosaur Road

Just north of Erenhot is located in China, is a quiet emerging border town. Before 1950 time metaphase, here is a piece of desert steppe. 1956.Beijing- started the construction of Ulan Bator - Moscow railway, the town is also the start of modern history of the development of their own. However, the history of Erenhot is far more than that, in the vast grassland, with two long and brilliant history, a period of 70000000 years ago dinosaurs here to create natural history, a seventeenth Century Chinese businessmen here to create humanistic history.

Erenhot train station

Erenhot city's small, open the car as long as 20 minutes, you can run a lap around the city. But is this a tiny area, it was the dinosaur park. ErenhotInner MongoliaThe earliest written into the international paleontology fossil origin, now it is because the number of underground continuous unearthed huge fossils of dinosaur bones and fossils of dinosaur eggs and known as China's "hometown of dinosaur".

The hometown of dinosaur

To enter the territory of Inner Mongolia, the road on both sides of the land more and more until the stretch, stretch as far as eye can see. The grey and black asphalt road straight forward, as if to up to the sky. So far, they saw the huge statue of asphalt road, more and more close, also see more and more clearly, the original two huge dinosaurs split on both sides of the road, long neck to stretch, until the two dinosaurs mouth touch together, more than 80 meters wide, this is the Erenhot landmark buildings -- "dinosaur kiss", indicates that we have entered the tens of millions of years ago dinosaur. From the "start dinosaur kiss", is a few kilometres dinosaur landscape avenue. On both sides of the road stretch as far as eye can see grasslands, stand 99 different forms of the dinosaur statue. These dinosaur statues and huge white windmill together, constitute a wonderful picture of ancient and modern interleaving.

Camel

70000000 years ago in the Cretaceous, is located in the Erenhot urban area 9 kilometers northeast of the reconnaissance Noel Yanchi and not today's grasslands, but around the lakes and swamps, hot and humid climate, dense forests and numerous, therefore become dinosaurs lived paradise. Now, buried here is rich in vertebrate fossils of dinosaurs, ancient biologists call "dinosaur cemetery". The composition of foreign geologists paleontologists, joint investigation team has been here 6 times large-scale investigation and mining, have been discovered in euhelopus, Euclidean vegetables dragon, hadrosaurs, ornithomimus, dragon, dragon and other more than ten kinds of fossils, but here buried dinosaur fossil compared to the number of, is just the tip of the iceberg. Legend, in this area of sand, with the shovel to dig, they are dinosaur fossils.

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