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Anshun Guanling Fossil Group is located in Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County in the southwest of Guizhou Province, with a planned area of 26 square kilometers and a protected area of 200 square kilometers. The core area is 0.94 square kilometers. Guanling Fossil Group is 188 kilometers away from Guiyang City, 52 kilometers away from Huangguoshu Waterfall, and 90 kilometers away from Longgong Karst Cave. The Huajiang Grand Canyon, a provincial-level scenic spot, is located in the reserve.
The paleontological fossils buried in the Guanling Fossil Group were formed in the Triassic Bay 220 million years ago. They mainly include marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs, finosaurs, and lintelodonts. Shells, conodonts, nautiluses, brachiopods and ancient plant fossils. Guanling paleontological fossils, especially marine reptile fossils and crinoid fossils are huge in number, various in variety, and beautifully preserved, which are rare in the strata of the same period in the world.
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