New discoveries of dinosaur fossils and geological relics in eastern Xizang
Since the 1970s,archaeologists and paleontologists have discovered a number of precious dinosaur fossils in the city of Qamdo at an altitude of 4,200 meters.The reason why these dinosaur fossils are so precious is not only because they fill the missing link in the early evolution stage of dinosaures,but more importantly,they provide a ba-sis for scientists to study the geological evolution process of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.In this paper,a special in-vestigation and evaluation of dinosaur fossil geological relics was carried out in the distribution area of the Middle Ju-rassic continental sedimentary stratigraphic stratain eastern Xizang,4 footprint fossil sites and 3 skeleton fossil sites were newly discovered and a number of dinosaur fossil sources with great potential have been found in the area of Da-mala Mountain,Chengguan Town,Karo District,Qamdo City,which provides a basis for the research,utilization,pro-tection and management of dinosaur fossil resources in eastern Xizang.