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MESSEL PIT LIAONING
Country: Germany Country: China
Famous fossil: Darwinius Famous fossil: Sinosauropteryx
The rock in this quarry has The dinosaur fossils of Liaoning are beautifully
preserved incredibly detailed preserved after being buried under layers of
fossils of animals that were volcanic ash in the late Cretaceous. These fossils
poisoned by volcanic gases and show that many dinosaurs had feathers rather than
then sank into a lake. scaly skin like reptiles. Fossil f

GOBI DESERT inds
Country: Mongolia
Famous fossil: Velociraptor
In the late Cretaceous, the Gobi
Desert had conifer forests,
lakes, streams, and many
dinosaurs, including the
meat-eater Velociraptor.

EDIACARA HILLS
Country: Australia
Famous fossil: Dickinsonia
Mysterious leaf-shaped
imprints found in Australia’s
desert may be the remains of
soft-bodied sea animals that
BAHARIYA OASIS lived 600 million years ago.
Country: Egypt
Famous fossil: Spinosaurus
A desert oasis now, this site was once a
coastal marsh inhabited by fish-eating
Spinosaurus—the largest predatory
dinosaur known.

KEY
Cenozoic
TENDAGURU
Country: Tanzania
Famous fossil: Kentrosaurus Cretaceous
The spiky-tailed stegosaur
Kentrosaurus was found in Jurassic
Jurassic sandstone hills at this
site in East Africa. MOUNT KIRKPATRICK
Country: Antarctica Triassic
Famous fossil: Cryolophosaurus
Most of Antarctica is buried under
ice, but this rocky outcrop allowed Cambrian
five Jurassic dinosaurs to be found.

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