Dinosaur village offers new body of evidence (4)

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(China Daily)

One of the aims of this new excavation is to find new species, Wang said.

The nasal features of Tsintaosaurus is one such question.

Previous research indicated the nose of Tsintaosaurus was directed up, different from other known lambeosaurids, a genus dinosaur that lived about 76 to 75 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period.

But tests on Tsintaosaurus, which is currently stored in the Paleozoological Museum of China, show the nasal feature differing from the research, Wang explained. He hopes the excavation can help solve the puzzle.

Also, Wang hopes to uncover a specimen of Tanius sinensis from the Late Crustaceous period.

The only skeleton is stored in Uppsala University, Sweden.

Wang's work in Laiyang started as early as 2008.

But site conditions held back excavation as Wang tried to protect exposed fossils.

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