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Shanwang Fossil Museum

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The Shanwang Fossil Museum is a local specialized museum in China. Located in Linqu County of Shandong Province, the museum was built in 1981 and opened to the public in April 1985.

The museum covers an area of about 1.3 hectares, of which 1,600 square meters is for exhibition halls. It preserves more than 10,000 fossil specimens, which are of over 400 species within 20 families, including insect fossil with traces of wing and claw hair, bat fossil with traces of velamen ala, mouse fossil with hairs, and Oriental Bear, which are all very rare and of high scientific value.

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