Media: in North-Eastern China found the trail with dinosaur tracks
Hadrosaurs could be up to seven meters in length, according to Xinhua news Agency.
SHANGHAI, March 11. /Offset. TASS Ivan Kargapoltsev/. Dinosaur footprints discovered in northeast China’s Jilin province by a team of scientists from China, the Republic of Korea and the United States. It is reported by Xinhua news Agency.
Dinosaur tracks found in NE China’s Jilin. Some footprints believed to be made by hadrosaurs https://t.co/VH02dMaN3b pic.twitter.com/she8ksHMF7
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) March 11, 2017
The trail traces were found on one of the back roads in a mountainous area near the town of Longjing in Yanbian Korean Autonomous district in August 2015.
“On those trails discovered 55-centimeter footprints of hadrosaurs (dinosaurs of the duck-family, approx. TASS). Animals who left them could be up to seven meters long”, — said the Agency Professor of the Chinese University geophysical Sciences Xing Lida.
Among the findings, he added, also trails, which went carnivorous dinosaurs, with tracks ranging from 21 to 43 inches.
These findings, said a Chinese scientist, will allow to better understand the landscape of this area during the Cretaceous period, which began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago.