Zhiming's Research
The paleontologist who has made the largest contribution to the formation and its excavation is Dong Zhiming. He first examined the formation in 1975, after bone fragments were found embedded in rock from the area. The site was being demolished to make way for both a natural gas field facility and a vehicle park when Zhiming first saw the area. Amongst the extensive clearings, Zhiming found numerous bone fragments which were exposed.
However, the specimens were being damaged due to bulldozers in the area and there would be little chance of closing the area as the state had invested millions of yuan in the site already. It was not until 1985 that the government finally agreed to close the construction on the site, and by then Zhiming and his team had already excavated over 100 dinosaurs from the area, including several rare sauropod skulls. A dinosaur was found in the Dashanpu Formation which was named in tribute of both Dashanpu and Dong Zhiming; Dashanpusaurus dongi.
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