On September 15th, at a construction site in Shangli Industrial Park, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, when construction workers used excavators to carry out road construction, they found that five or six ashlar blocks were inlaid with multiple oval "fossil eggs".
On September 17, Dr. Wang Qiang from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told reporters that after preliminary identification, they belong to the early Late Cretaceous dinosaur egg fossils about 90 million years ago.
Public information shows that Pingxiang, Jiangxi is one of the most important dinosaur egg fossil producing areas in South China.
From 2002 to 2014, nearly 200 dinosaur eggs were discovered in the Cretaceous red beds in Pingxiang area.
Wang Qiang believes that the discovery of dinosaur egg fossils is of great significance for further understanding of the palaeogeography and paleoenvironment of the Late Cretaceous in Pingxiang, Jiangxi and even the entire Jiangxi area. The relatively complete egg nest can reflect some of the dinosaur egg laying habits. The distribution of eggs in the stratum provides precious first-hand data and detailed paleontological evidence.
(Edited by Liu Zhankun and Xie Wen Lu Jie)
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]