Ulaanbaatar
Dinosaur fossils found in soum center
Society
Umnugobi /MONTSAME/
Construction workers who were digging foundations for an apartment building for
civil servants in the center of Tsogt-Ovoo soum, Umnugobi aimag, have come
across dinosaur fossils.
Director of
the Cultural Center of the soum center Mr. Ganbold said “We informed the
Institute of Paleontology and Geology and the National Center for Cultural
Heritage immediately. Thus, professionals came here and found three shin bone fossils as a result of an excavation. The discoveries were then taken to
Ulaanbaatar on October 9 and will be brought back to the local museum after restoration”
Researchers’
initial supposition is that the fossils belong to Diplodocus, a 15-27.2 m long herbivore
dinosaur whose weight equals that of two giant elephants.
