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Article: Jurassic dinosaur fossils found on China's southern coast
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 10, 2002
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Jurassic dinosaur fossils found on China's southern coast
NANNING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- A day at the seaside ended with an
archaeological discovery when beach-goers from Fangcheng stumbled
upon dinosaur fossils on the Jiangshan peninsula in south China's
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Archeologists with the Guangxi Natural Museum said this was the
first time that dinosaur fossils of the Jurassic period (145 million
and 208 million years ago) had been found on the southern coast of
China.
Before that, many dinosaur fossils ...