SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 27, 2026 — A collection of 54 valuable fossils from the Hezheng Paleontological Fossil Museum in Gansu Province’s Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture was unveiled for public viewing at the Shenzhen Art Museum in Guangdong Province on January 24.
Hezheng County is situated in the Linxia Basin, at the juncture of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. This area contains a continuous sedimentary layer that was formed during the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau more than 30 million years ago.
According to Hou Sujuan, a young researcher and doctoral advisor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the fossils discovered in Hezheng have bridged a crucial gap in the history of life, spanning from the dinosaur extinction to the dawn of humanity. The site has yielded over 40,000 fossil specimens to date, establishing it as the richest source of mammalian fossils in China and across the Eurasian continent.
Hezheng is internationally recognized for the vast number, wide variety, and superb condition of its paleontological fossils, which are of major importance for piecing together the evolutionary timeline of late Cenozoic mammals in Asia.
Source: Hezheng Paleontological Fossil Museum
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