The Scientific Characters And Protection Of Dinosaurs From Henan Province

Henan Province is located in the eastern interior of mainland China, which is the natural boundary or transitional zone in geology, geography, biology and climate between the South and the North China. It is also the amalgamation zone and an important mineral metallogenic belt between north plate and south plate in China. Here distributed are the transitional strata and paleobiological, geological heritage resources were formed under the special stage and geological tectonic evolution, which have/haven't discovered in North China and South China. Therefore, it has become an ideal place to study the crustal evolution and the biological evolution of China mainland and it is also one of important areas to study paleontology for specialists and scholars from national research institutes on paleontology and universities. It has been caused much attention by many geologists at home and abroad.Based on the rich dinosaur resources in Henan Province, the author has obtained some important results through the scientific study and protection research of dinosaurs and,these results can help to discover more and more complete dinosaurs and other vertebrate fossils, to promote and raises the research level on the systematic paleontology and dinosaurs in Henan Province, and thus provides important scientific data on stratigraphy, paleogeography and paleoenvironment of Mesozoic basins, which can accelerate to build protection system at all levels and geological parks, all these can bring about a great advance in environment protection, tourism economy, agriculture, industrial production and social civilization.The discovery and research history of Henan dinosaurs, and the results of tectonic settings, stratigraphic distribution and paleogeographic environment etc of Mesozoic basin in recent 30 years were thoroughly reviewed. This is the first time to sum up the distribution, paleoecological characters, paleogeographic environment, paleoclimatology and geologic settings of Mesozoic basin which bear dinosaur eggs,dinosaur skeletons and other fossils in Henan Province.Two newly-discovered large-scaled dinosaur assemblages from Ruyang Basin and Tantou Basin have been discovered respectively. The dinosaur-bearing strata and the evolution of the basin have been corrected. Two new dinosaurs from the Ruyang Basin- Huanghetitan ruyangensis and Zhongyuansaurus luoyangensis and one theropod dinosaur from Tantou Basin were briefly described. The scientific research and protection value on dinosaur fossils from Henan Province are thoroughly evaluated and their social economic values are discussed too. The dinosaurs from Henan Province are regarded as having high scientific value and social economic values of cultivating. Some present problems on fossils'protection and development are put forward. The principle of"Scientific planning, effective protection and reasonable development"is proposed to protect and develop dinosaurs from Henan Province.