The Linxia Basin, where the Hezheng area of ​​Gansu is located, is located at the intersection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. It is rich in mammalian fossils and is known as the "Fossil Kingdom" of ancient animals and the "Eden Garden of Ancient Animals".

So far, more than 30,000 fossil specimens have been discovered and collected in more than 100 fossil sites in the Hezheng area, which is the region with the most abundant mammalian fossils in China and even the entire Eurasia.

  Fossils produced in the much-watched Hezheng area have so far created six of the world’s most: the unique Hezheng sheep fossil in the world, the richest shovel tooth fossil in the world, the richest three-toed horse fossil in the world, The world’s earliest Quaternary woolly rhinoceros fossil, the world’s largest true horse fossil Eschma, and the world’s largest hyena fossil, the giant hyena.

  Among them, among the "world's most abundant shovel-tooth fossils", there are about 60 complete shovel-tooth skulls and lower jaws found in the Hezheng area. This number exceeds the number of fossils of any shovel-tooth fauna in the world. land.

The Hezheng area also produced the world’s only set of shovel-tooth skull ontogeny specimens, including shovel-tooth skull fossils of different ages from 3 to 4 months to more than 40 years old, which fully reproduce the ontogeny of shovel-tooth During the development of the skull.

(Reporter Sun Zifa produced Sui Zhiyuan)

Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]