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Coming in Spring 2009
Chinasaurs is the largest collection of authentic Chinese fossils ever toured. More than 20 skeletons, up to 70-feet long, and 20 fossil objects including nests, are displayed in an evocative environment, accompanied by 4 original 70-foot murals created by Chinese artists and the Royal Museum of British Columbia.
Interactives include touch-screens, activity carts, a 20 by 30 foot dig pit, and a preparation laboratory with authentic fossils. China presents the broadest array of dinosaurs across dinosaur time of any country, yet its dinosaurs are little known here. These rare finds offer a new and exciting presentation of an ever-popular theme: Dinosaurs!
This exhibit includes:
Triassic Fossils
| Lufengosaurus |
15 foot long youngster, half-grown of plant eater that was an ancestor of giants like Mamenchisaurus. Known as a prosauropod, this dinosaur comes from southern China. |
Original Jurassic Fossils
Aquatic Reptile |
From feathered dinosaur locality 2 feet long, 1 foot wide - beautiful preservation revealed in this tiny 150 million year old fossil Jurassic Casts |
Tuojiangosaurus |
Plant-eater 20 feet long, 7 feet high Early stegosaur with sharp spines |
Bellusaurus |
Plant-eater 13.25 feet long, 5 feet high Tiny for a relative of giant plant eaters |
Mamenchisaurus |
(two adolescents 30 feet long, one standing up tall, and one giant adult –plant-eater 67 feet long, 15 feet high) Longest necked animal ever |
Monolophosaurus and
Tuojiangosaurus |
Meat eater 16.5 feet long, 7.5 feet - Single crested large early meateater fighting early stegosaur 20 feet long and 7 feet high |
Dilophosaurus |
Meat-eater 16 feet long, 7 feet high. Double crested killer made far smaller in the Jurassic Park films - one of first Jurassic killer giants. |
Szechuanosaurus |
15 foot long, mid-sized meat eater from middle of China and Middle of
Original Cretaceous Fossils |
Bactrosaurus |
Plant-eater 25 feet long, 10 feet high – adult, a duckbilled dinosaur related closely to those known from North America – a proof of connection of Asia and N. America |
Archaeornithomimus |
Meat eater 11 feet long, 6 feet high - one of the fastest of all dinosaurs, ostrichlike in build |
Nurosaurus Femur |
5 foot-high leg bone of giant plant eater that visitor can touch- the largest dinosaur ever to walk Asia- nearly 100 feet long. |
Various Dinosaur Footprints |
Meat eaters and plant eaters, some that visitors can touch |
Protoceratops |
7.25 feet long, 4 feet high - an early relative of Triceratops of North America. Enormous specimen, may be largest one ever found |
Nest of meat eating dinosaurs |
.5 feet long, .25 feet high - French bread shaped eggs, several laid in a spiral |
Nest of 21 eggs |
among largest known nests of plant eating dinosaurs |
| Psittacosaurus |
plant eater 4 feet long, 2 feet high - earliest known ancestor of horned dinosaur, a little animal that ran on four legs or two |
New Dinosaur |
Crow-sized new species of meat eating dinosaur, spectacularly preserved in rock from Liaoning quarry site of feathered dinosaurs, not yet named. |
Cretaceous Casts
| Velociraptor |
meat eater 7.25 feet long, 3.5 feet high. Vicious killer far smaller than made out in Jurassic Park |
| 2 Feathered Dinosaurs |
3 feet high, 2 feet wide - New discoveries that show meat eating dinosaurs were very close to birds; Caudipteryx (has pom-pom like feathers on tail) and Sinosauropteryx. |
| Tsintaosaurus |
plant eater 26 feet long, 13 feet high - Large duckbill with odd unicorn-like crest |
| Two Protoceratops casts |
4 feet long by 2 feet high |
| Archaeoceratops |
newly named species of very primitive ceratopsian – 3 feet long, 1 foot high |
| Dsungaripterus |
Flying reptile 15 feet long- plaque mounted and/or flying mount |
Other Significant Orginal Fossils:
Turtle, salamanders, fish, marine reptiles, plants from across dinosaur time.
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.  Lufengosaurus
 Protoceratops
Sinosauropteryx
Tsintaosaurus
Szechuanosaurus
Caudipteryx
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