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Thursday, December 28, 2000, updated at 19:29(GMT+8)
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Stone Culture Museum Completed in Guizhou

A museum, which houses strange stones, fossils and stone sculptures, has been completed in southwest China's Guizhou Province and will opened to visitors on January 1, 2001.

The museum, located in the Xiaohe District of Guiyang City, the provincial capital, has more than 800 fossils, mineral cluster crystals, elegant stones and elaborate stone sculptures on display.

The exhibits include 100 plus sea lily fossils, a kind of ancient echinoderm, which existed 240 million years ago, and over 100 fossils of Chinese dragons, keichousaurus and ichyosaurus (Himalayasaurus Tibetensis).

Guizhou is very rich in fossils of plants and animals. Experts said that the fossils of the sea lily and keichousaurus are of high academic value.







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A museum, which houses strange stones, fossils and stone sculptures, has been completed in southwest China's Guizhou Province and will opened to visitors on January 1, 2001.

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