On March 3rd, 20021year, many Chinese and foreign paleontologists jointly announced that the Sanbiluoga No.2 footprint, located in Zhaojue County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, is the largest dinosaur footprint found in China, with an area of over 9,000 square meters and at least 933 footprints.

The results of this study were published by Xing Lida, an associate professor of China Geo University, Peng He, an expert of Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Martin Lockley, a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Klein, a German footprint scholar, and Wang, a doctoral student at China Geo University. The research paper was published in the international geological magazine Frontier of Earth Science.

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The large dinosaur footprint point in Sanbiluoga is an excellent area for studying dinosaur footprints. Thousands of footprints have been exposed, including the longest sauropods and ornithopods found in China, which are of great value and significance. Due to the lack of Cretaceous dinosaur skeleton fossils in southern Sichuan basin, the abundant footprint data of Sanbiluoga became a general survey sample to study the paleoecology of dinosaur fauna in this area.

At the same time, a large number of footprints are also helpful to study the behavior or kinematics of dinosaurs. These footprints also show some evidence of dinosaurs' social life at that time, such as the discovery that hadrosaurs lived in groups and could be used to study the social behavior of dinosaurs.

Sichuan Aixin. com-Paleontologists confirmed that the largest dinosaur footprint in China is located in Liangshan, Sichuan, with an area of over 9,000 square meters.