Xilingol was a homeland for dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago. Dinosaur National Park in Erenhot City is a national 4A level scenic spot famous for its abundant and rare dinosaur fossils.

Cretaceous Dinosaur Geopark
The scenic spot is the Tungur Dinosaur Graveyard Ruins, which is originally a desolate area and now is known for numerous dinosaur fossils. It is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from downtown Erenhot and no direct public transport is available to the attraction, so visitors can charter buses in Erenhot City. Visitors can watch dinosaur fossils and mammal fossils of various periods in the park. There are also many emulational dinosaur models in the open air. The corresponding text introductions and surface rock strata sections are provided in each dinosaur display area. Besides, it restores the life scenes of ancient dinosaurs, and vividly shows the dinosaur excavation process. With a great significance of scenic popularization, it is especially suitable for children to visit and learn.

Nowadays, this park establishes a special exhibition museum in order to display the relics of dinosaurs. Erenhot Dinosaur Museum is the earliest place of origin of dinosaur fossils recorded in the international history of paleontology in Inner Mongolia. As early as 70 million years ago, the area was a paradise for dinosaurs to live and multiply as its suitable environment which includes lakes and marshes, hot and humid climate and dense forests. Over the past 100 years, paleontologists and geologists successively from Russia, the United States, Canada and China has made six large-scale investigation and excavation, discovering that more than 10 kinds of fossils such as platypodocus, hadrosaur, ankylosaurus and ceratosaurus fossils. Numerous and various relatively complete dinosaur bones fossils are unearthed, including the earliest discovered dinosaur egg fossil in China.

Besides, the largest and most intact dinosaur fossil was discovered in Sunite You Qi. This well-known source of dinosaur fossils is the desolate area 9 kilometers northeast of Erenhot. 

 

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