Are there dinosaurs in Qingdao? ‘Secret Qingdao Dragon Relics Museum’, the fossil site where ‘Qingdao Saurus’ was discovered

The first dinosaur in China and the representative dinosaur of this region, the ‘Qintaosaurus’ This fossil site is strictly speaking located in Laiyang (莱阳), Yantai City (烟台市), not Qingdao. This creature, which was called ‘Secret Qingdao Dragon’ in Chinese, was given the name ‘Secret’ because it had a horn-like crown on its head. It is said that the reason it was named ‘Qintao’ instead of Qingdao Dragon was due to an error in the Romanization method. Also, the regional name seems to be because Qingdao is geographically closer than Yantai, which it belongs to. It is also known that the ‘Qintaosaurus’ lived on the Korean Peninsula. Until the 1950s, when this dinosaur was excavated here, there had never been a dinosaur bone excavated this complete in the history of Chinese excavations, and it was said to be an extremely rare area where dinosaur eggs and dinosaur fossils were found together. However, there are no other auxiliary facilities around, it is a vast plain, and the size of the site is small, so there are few general tourists, and unless you are a paleontologist, it is difficult for ordinary people to feel anything special when they go there. Inside the convexly covered transparent bubble, the fossils that were found in pieces are on display. #China #ChinaTravel #DinosaurFossil #RelicSite #Qintaosaurus #Yantai #Laiyang #QingdaoTravel