Chapter II
"Get moving!! Everybody's moving! "Probably the biggest archaeological discovery of the century has galvanized everyone, contacting local authorities through formal channels, asking for armed police officers to be stationed on site for protection, mobilizing equipment for excavation, and allocating special funds from the local government for conservation and excavations. The local government www.biquge.info, as the manager of the world's famous dinosaur burial site, has more or less a certain understanding of paleontology, the local business card, and the current young people have promoted a group of officials with sufficient scientific literacy, so they naturally understand how important this discovery is, which is enough for them to push the fame of this dinosaur town to a higher level again -- then there is a lot to be done in tourism development.
Huang Wenxi, the fat man, was naturally very excited, because this fossil was discovered by him first, and then the entire excavation activity was also sponsored by him, and the scientific name of this fossil is likely to be linked to his name under normal circumstances..... The fat man looked at the fossilized teeth in his hand with a smile, and was thinking about whether it would be called Huang's Tyrannosaurus or something else. Of course, this guy didn't stop what he was going to do, he made a few phone calls all over China to find ground penetrating radar -- the best and most accurate kind. At the same time, this guy also asked his business partners in Shandong to get a batch of construction equipment, which was ready to be used to dig the ground and strip the rock layer.
This is probably the biggest discovery of this century, and of course there will be reporters who will break the big news -- science is not scientific, truth or untruth has never been the focus of this group of reporters, and whether it is sensational or not is their primary goal. Of course, all of this has also caused some sensation around the world, at least professionally, but most professionals still believe that it is likely that the earth's crustal movement caused the overlapping overlap between multiple strata, and at least there is not enough evidence to prove that this possible dinosaur fossil exists in Cenozoic strata.
As an excavation activity, this is a large amount of civil engineering. The first step is to remove all the soil from the hill, revealing the rock or fossil layer underneath, and the excavated floating soil sometimes needs to be examined - especially in the depths. This project alone took about half a month. Five meters of soil and rubble were dug up, revealing a layer of fossils underneath - they first found fossils that were about 10,000 years old. From here on, it is a water mill, they will have to peel off the fossil sediment layer by layer, which is almost an action against the long river of time, and there is no action like this that can more intuitively demonstrate the process of changing time and space to people.
However, there are no fossils of large animals in these rock formations, and they are okay to clean up - basically after three months, they are only about 10 meters from the rock layer below. During this time, Huang Fatzi couldn't stay here all the time due to business matters, but he would come to the scene whenever he had time - and he had been following the progress through network communication software. Now that it's finally time to go up to the ground radar, a cart-like thing is being pulled over the ground repeatedly and slowly on the ground that has been deliberately leveled slightly, and on the screen on one side, the red, green, and yellow color blocks gradually form a three-dimensional view. Ordinary field examiners don't understand these pictures, but professional geological prospectors watch this as if they were watching a TV at home, "Luckily, from this map, this fossil has a large distribution range." Oh, I can't confirm if it's a fossil, I can't confirm if it's the same creature, but I can tell you it's basically on the same level. Then, according to the feedback from the 3D map of the ground exploration, the staff inserted small flag labels on the ground, basically outlining the distribution range of the fossils. And on the map, there are no large fossils in the strata above it, which means that the process can be accelerated.
Another three months have passed, and Huang Fatzi has now directly handed over the business to his wife to sign and signed, and he has rushed to the excavation site from the magic capital early in the morning - starting today, the excavation team will officially uncover the rock formation here and begin to excavate this fossil. Graduate students and professors squatted or lying on their stomachs at the excavation site, using small shovels and bristle brushes to clean the soil and rocks around the fossils, and of course all these things were sampled for dating analysis. They worked so attentively because the rock samples around the fossils had been confirmed to have been formed around 55 million years ago, in other words, they could almost be assumed to have discovered amazing history, and the most significant archaeological discoveries of the century had been unfolded like they. Most of the fossils are already exposed to the surface, and plastic sheds and gutters have been erected above their heads to protect the excavation site. And the site is indeed quite spectacular - it occupies an area about half the size of a football field, basically high in the west and low in the east, and the dinosaur is almost lying here waiting for their discovery.
Even the most rough and pessimistic estimates show that the completeness of this dinosaur is quite astonishing - almost 80 percent or more, which is already a record in the history of dinosaur excavations in China. The fat yellow man trembled with excitement, and all day long he felt as if he was stepping on the clouds - judging from the fossils that were outcropping from the surface, it was already certain that this was a huge theropod dinosaur fossil, and judging from the exposed femur alone, it was more than two meters long, and the satellite was already quite large. However, the dinosaur's skull was still caught in the rocks and was not exposed, and there were quite a few bones, but the part that was exposed was already a terrifying big creature - part of the vertebrae, half of the pelvis, and half of the legs. Looking at this appearance, it is obvious that it was distorted after death, and the whole dinosaur formed a kind of burial on the ground with its feet spread out, and the upper body was obviously twisted into a side lying appearance.
Optimistically, such excavations could last two or three years, but it would take less than two or three weeks to make a splash...... Basically, professionals all over the world now know that 55 million years ago dinosaur fossils have been found in Shandong, and the 65 million years ago mass extinction has been smashed open, and this theropod carnivorous dinosaur is probably the largest and most complete fossil ever discovered by mankind - and it is not surprising that this is a fossil of a hyposiosaurus, but it is not possible to determine whether it is a tyrannosaurus rex, which is really because some places are different.
As for the species name of the fossil, it has also appeared, and it has basically been determined as the Yellow Emperor species of the Tyrannosaurus superfamily, Huang Wenxi's surname is Huang, and this extra-large carnivorous dinosaur can be fully qualified to use the ancient ancestor of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor, as the species name..... There was an endless stream of foreign paleontologists who came to visit and cooperate, and basically they all expressed great excitement about the half of the pelvis and the thick and long femur that had been exposed to the surface, and of course there was a lot of controversy - because so far this solitary evidence has not been able to prove that the dinosaurs arrived 10 million years after the mass extinction 65 million years ago...... If that's the case, there should be a little more fossil proof.
Huang Fat Man was very happy, dozens of years old and still like a child with tears of excitement, he devoted himself to the extremely meticulous cleaning of the site, of course, he was mainly responsible for trying to clean up the fossils that should be the direction of the skull burial - with a few graduate students. The skull, if it remains relatively intact, looks like it was torn from near the neck in three dimensions, is basically about two meters from the neck with the top of the head up and the mouth facing the neck, and the largest defect in this fossil, if any, is likely to be part of the cervical vertebrae.