Beibei Dinosaur Fossil Site

　　Introduction      Chongqing is one of the regions with the highest number of dinosaurs. Thirteen districts, counties, and cities in the municipality have discovered dinosaur remains, with thirty fossil excavation sites. Beibei is one of the areas where the most dinosaur fossils have been found. Since the first discovery of ornithopod dinosaur skeletal fossils in Jinguangbei in 1939, up to the excavation of three primitive prosauropod skeleton fossils in Jianshe Village in 1982, a total of thirteen fossil sites belonging to four major types of dinosaurs have been unearthed in various locations including Chengjiang Town, Beibei, Tianshengqiao, Southwest Normal University, Dujiastreet, Sansheng Township, and Tongjiaxi.

　　 Beibei District, Chongqing