- Who
- Shandong fossil bone beds
- What
- 7600 total number
- Where
- China ()
- When
- 2008
Based upon the number of finds since their discovery in 2008 in Zhucheng City, China’s Shandong fossil bone beds comprise the world’s biggest dinosaur fossil site. According to Zhao Zijin of Beijing’s Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, this site has already yielded more than 7600 fossils, dating from the Late Cretaceous Period (100 million to 65 million years ago). Among the most notable finds so far is a 2-m-long skull of a ceratopsian dinosaur, the first Late Cretaceous example from this group of horned dinosaurs ever recorded outside North America, and which included such famous dinosaurs as Triceratops and Styracosaurus.
