Chaoyang Fossils: The Rock Is Part of the Evidence
A flattened feathered fossil and a three-dimensional skeleton may have reached preservation by very different routes.
Chaoyang Bird Fossil Park
The park is in Longcheng District, Chaoyang, and includes the Chaoyang Paleontological Fossil Museum and a geological display corridor. It introduces a wider fossil landscape extending through Longcheng, Beipiao and Lingyuan. The Jehol Biota Fossil Sites in Chaoyang entered China’s UNESCO Tentative List in May 2026; that proposal is not a World Heritage inscription.