Northeastern Museum of Petrified Wood and mineral resources
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พิพิธภัณฑ์ไม้กลายเป็นหิน และทรัพยากรธรณีภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ |
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184 Moo.7, Baan Kroke Duen Ha, Suranaree Sub-district, Muang
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Khorat Fossil Museum is located at Baan Kroke Duen Ha, Suranaree
Sub-district, Muang Nakhonratchasima District, Nakhonratchasima.
It lies on 320 acres land. The museum was officially open on
October 29th, 2008. Queen Sirindhorn was the president of an
opening ceremony. The museum is the very first fossil museum of
Thailand. And, it is the one out of seven fossil museum in the
world. The museum has been separated into three zones as
follows:
1. Khorat Fossil Museum – contains fossils which
are 800,000 – 330 million years old and diamond fossils.
2. Ancient Elephant Museum – exhibits fossils of ancient
elephants in variety breeds.
3. Dinosaur Museum –
exhibits dinosaur body organs for both omnivore and carnivore
dinosaurs.
History of these three museums:
1.
Khorat Fossil Museum was firstly started constructing since 1994
but it was officially opened in 2008. We can found fossils in
every single province of north eastern part of Thailand and it
is impossible for the officers to put all of them into the
museum. This is why the officers only select some of them to
exhibit in the museum and these fossils are the most outstanding
one of each province. The highlight of the museum is of course a
fossil from Nakhonratchasima. The examples of fossils show in
this museum are diamond fossils, palm fossils, etc.
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Ancient Elephant Museum was initiated due to the fact that there
are tons of ancient elephant fossils in Nakhonratchasima. The
explorer found it 5-40 deep down nearby Moon River and Sakha
River. The area lies across many districts such as
Chaloemphrakiat district, Noan Soong district, Chakkarat
district, Pimai district, and Muang Nakhonratchasima district.
It is surprised that we have found 8 out of 42 types of fossils
from all over the world here at Tha Chang district and they are
16-0.8 years old.
3. Dinosaur Museum was initiated due
to the exploration of dinosaur fossils in the area of Khoak
Kruad district and Suranaree district. Dinosaur fossils were
scattered all over the nearby area in the length of 80,000
acres. It can be indicated as four types: 1. Alosaur: omnivore
dinosaur which was expected to be 10 meters high. 2.Soropot:
omnivore dinosaur which was expected to be at least 15 meters
high. 3.Iguanodon: omnivore dinosaur which had pretty similar
teeth as iguana. 4.Hadrosaur: dinosaur that had lived 100
million years ago. |
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102.02638 E |
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