nanjing paleontology museum

Nanjing Institute of Geology and paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is located on the Bank of Xuanwu Lake. The Institute is a specialized institution engaged in paleontological research in China, and is regarded as one of the three major paleontological research centers in the world by international paleontologists. The Museum of paleontology specimens is a window open to the public. At present, the museum has a collection of nearly 200000 fine fossil specimens.

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nanjing paleontology museum

Nanjing Museum of paleontology is located in the south of Jiming Temple scenic area, Xuanwu District, Nanjing City, with a total construction area of 8500 square meters, of which the exhibition area is nearly 4200 square meters. It is one of the largest professional museums of Paleontology in the world, ranking second in China in the 2009 CAS Museum evaluation.

Based on fossil fossils, the museum is mainly composed of paleoinvertebrates, ancient plants and micro paleontology. The museum has a rich collection and exquisite exhibits, among which the fossil specimens of "Chengjiang fauna" and "Jehol Biota" including "Chinese dragon and bird" are the most precious, which can be called a national treasure.

Nanjing Museum of paleontology, affiliated to Nanjing Institute of Geology and paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is jointly built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiangsu Provincial People's government. It is a modern museum integrating exhibition, collection, research and education, and an important base for popularization and education of natural science.

Development history

In March 1998, the leaders of Jiangsu Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences decided that the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiangsu Province would jointly build the Nanjing Museum of paleontology.

The construction of the museum started in May 2002 and passed the acceptance of the construction and installation project of the museum in April 2004.

In May 2004, the design, bidding and construction of Museum exhibition were started, and the first phase project "Chengjiang fauna special exhibition" was opened to the public on October 1, 2004

At the end of December 2005, the second phase of the project "life evolution history exhibition" was opened to the public.

Exhibition Profile

Biological evolution Exhibition

The theme exhibition of biological evolution is centered on the entrance hall, the way up the mountain, the mystery of fossils, the origin of the earth, Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

1) Foyer: large scale relief of life evolution, large-scale globe, theme booth of "evolving life, evolving earth". It also includes the introduction of the museum, the layout of the exhibition content and the schematic diagram of the tour route, and the front desk.

2) The road to the mountain: the simulated rock profile of Sinian Jurassic strata in Nanjing area (with many fossils from Nanjing area) is displayed.

3) Fossil mystery: introduce the definition of fossil, fossil types, fossil formation, fossil function, exhibition wall of Darwinian evolution theory, large-scale exhibition stand, alternate distribution of animal and plant fossils, and display of some large-scale paleontological fossils.

4) Precambrian: the position of the earth in the solar system, the early Earth environment, the origin and early evolution of life, oil painting, early volcanic eruption, the oldest rocks, the oldest rocks and fossils, the five world classification of organisms, Weng'an Biota, Ediacaran fauna.

5) Paleozoic: paleogeography exhibition wall of each period, MEISHUCUN fauna exhibition wall, Chengjiang fauna landscape window, Cambrian explosion exhibition wall, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian exhibition wall and booth.

6) Mesozoic Era: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous exhibition walls and booths; ammonite age exhibition walls and booths; reptile and dinosaur age exhibition walls; end Cretaceous dinosaur extinction event exhibition walls.

7) Cenozoic: Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternary and Quaternary climate exhibition walls, exhibition stands, large paintings and large skeleton fossils.

Life evolution Exhibition

The life evolution exhibitions are Chengjiang fauna, dinosaur world, micro world, biological landing, invertebrate fossil grand view, Permian extinction, paleobotanical garden, crinoid fossil wall, Jehol biota, origin and evolution of birds, ocean in dinosaur age, evolution of geological history in Nanjing, Homo erectus in Nanjing and "where do I come from?".

1) Special exhibition hall of Chengjiang fauna: including theme wall: Chengjiang fauna - a unique window to reveal the Cambrian explosion, large stratigraphic section of Chengjiang fauna, landscape restoration map of Chengjiang fauna: Early Cambrian marine life world, anormalocaris and other models, submarine landscape tunnel, 3D animation reflecting the ecology of Chengjiang fauna, magnifying glass exhibition wall, restoration map exhibition wall, and visualization Stone photo exhibition wall, etc. Representative fossils of Chengjiang fauna: 12 major categories, more than 80 species, about 240 specimens.

2) Dinosaur World: large rock platform, knowledge booth, dinosaur landscape box, Jurassic and Cretaceous Dinosaur ecological simulation rock, booth. It shows the group modeling of Mamen river dragon, Tuojiang dragon, Lufeng dragon and pterosaur.

3) Micro world: with the help of micro technology and image display equipment, we can not only observe the biological cells, embryos, tissues, organs, micro structures and mineralization characteristics, but also clearly see the very tiny fossils of animals and plants. In the long geological history, they have evolved in different patterns, some of which are just a flash in the pan, some of which have experienced vicissitudes and lasted for a long time. Microfossils, like living microfossils, are widely distributed and spread to every corner of the earth's surface, and become the main component of modern marine sediments. This is an enlarged model of coccolithophyta.

4) The chrysanthemum stand displays representative fossils from Sinian to Quaternary.

5) Exhibition of invertebrate fossils: the origin of invertebrates can be traced back to the end of Precambrian or even earlier. In the early Paleozoic, the ocean was almost dominated by invertebrates, and the organisms were highly prosperous and diversified. In addition to many living organisms, there were also some extinct biological groups, such as trilobites, graptolites and Nautilus. Invertebrate fossils of different ages and types gather in one museum, which is a magnificent sight.

6) Mass extinction at the end of the Permian: the mass extinction at the end of the Permian (about 245 million years ago) is the largest in the history of the earth, and its impact even exceeds that of the famous dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. More than 90% of the marine species are extinct. On land, the rate of extinction also reached 75%. The victims of this catastrophe include a large number of invertebrates, such as trilobites and rugose corals, as well as some of the most prosperous reptiles on the Permian land, such as Panlong. This catastrophe completely changed the face of the biosphere and provided a huge ecological space for the evolution of Mesozoic organisms.

7) Dinosaur era ocean (Guanling biota): large scale model landscape, exhibition stand.

8) 28 large crinoids are shown in the wall of crinoids.

9) Jehol biota: the Mesozoic Jehol biota is a rare fossil treasure house in the world, which can be compared with the German Archaeopteryx origin sorenhofen. This biota is about 130 million years old and widely distributed in eastern Asia. Its fossils are abundant, numerous and well preserved, including a large number of animals and plants. In recent years, the discovery of feathered dinosaurs and the oldest angiosperms in Jehol Biota has caused a great sensation at home and abroad. The Jehol biota is of great scientific significance for the study of the origin and early evolution of birds, mammals and angiosperms, as well as the paleogeography, paleoclimate and paleoenvironment at that time. The collection of Chinese dragon and bird, Liaoning ancient fruit and other type specimens can be regarded as national treasures

10) Origin and early evolution of birds: model landscapes and booths.

11) Shanwang biota: Shanwang is located 20 kilometers east of Linqu County, Shandong Province, where the Miocene diatom soil layer is thin and fine, and well-organized, they overlap together, like thick books, known as fossil "wanjuan book". Shanwang is a treasure house of precious fossils, rich in animal and plant fossils, including about 160 species of plant fossils including algae, and animal fossils mainly include birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects. Shanwang fossils are not only various, but also well preserved. The Shanwang Formation was formed in the lake environment, and the biota reflected the warm and humid climate at that time, which was suitable for the survival and prosperity of organisms.

12) Nanjing Homo erectus: large karst cave (Tangshan ape man cave), exhibition board. The skull model of Nanjing Homo erectus and other ancient human skull restoration models, the display of symbiosis with Nanjing Homo erectus, and the position of Nanjing Homo erectus in the history of human evolution.

13) Geological history evolution of Nanjing: exhibition wall showing the stratigraphic table and digital geological map of Nanjing area, large-scale topographic model of Nanjing.

14) Where do I come from: large scale spray painting, exhibition wall and video display.

Special exhibition

Chengjiang biota

The Chengjiang Fauna of the Early Cambrian in eastern Yunnan is a rare fossil treasure house in the world, which is characterized by the special preservation of many kinds of animal soft drive fossils. More than 120 species of Chengjiang fauna fossils have been found, which belong to more than 10 phyla, such as sponges, coelenterates, lineates, gills, zoostomes, phyllopods, brachiopods, molluscs, arthropods, chordates, and some strange groups with unknown taxonomic position. In addition, there are many kinds of symbiotic algae. The Chengjiang fauna vividly represents the sea of 520 million years ago

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