Located in the east of Hezheng County, the museum occupies 135 mu (1 mu equals 00667 hectare)of land, with a total investment of 210 million Yuan. The total floorage is 23, 085 square meters. The museum has 3 independent buildings of unique shapes, i.e. Exhibition Hall No. 1, Exhibition Hall No. 2, and Exhibition Hall No. 3, which form a triangle layout. Since 1920s, a large number of mammalian fossils have been excavated in Hezheng area. Now, the museum keeps more than 30,000 fossil specimens, which belong to more than 150 genera, 8 orders and 3 classes. The fossils of different mammalian faunas in late Cenozoic Era were respectively buried in 4 strata of different petrologic features in Hezheng area. The museum keeps 6 world records: the world's only Hezhenggia, the world's largest fossil locality of the Hipparion fauna， the world’s richest Platybelodon fossils-ontogenetic series of Platybelodon skulls, the world’s largest Equus-Equus Eisenmannae, the world’s largest Hyena-Dinocrocuta gigantea, the world’s earliest Quaternary woolly rhino-Coelodonta antiquitatis .The museum has been entitled “AAAA National Tourist Attraction”, “National Science Education Base” “National Base for Children’s Science Education”, “Patriotism Education Base of Gansu Province,” “Demonstration Base for Green Unit Construction and Environmental Education of Gansu Province”, “Hezheng Scientific Research Base of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology”, “Chinese Academy of Sciences" in succession. It won the 10th National Top 10 Museum Display Award in 2012.

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