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Cretaceous Park opens in east China

Xinhua, February 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

A national geological park featuring Cretaceous geology and paleontology opened to public on Thursday in east China's Shandong Province.

The park in Laiyang City is still under construction with only three attractions -- a Cretaceous geological museum, a petrified forest and dinosaur fossil canyons -- receiving visitors.

The museum depicts the fossil assemblages of the Jehol Biota, an ecosystem existing more than 100 million years ago. Dinosaur egg fossils were discovered during earliest excavation at Laiyang in 1923. The petrified forest covers an area of 5 hectares.

The construction of the park was approved in 2011 and has cost 200 million yuan (about 30 million U.S. dollars). Endi