BANGKOK, 14 MAY 2019 (NNT) – The Department of Mineral Resources has organized a workshop on the Fossil Preservation Act B.E.2551 at a hotel in Sa Kaeo province to create understanding about fossils and the management of fossils in accordance with the law. Department of Mineral Resources Director General Sommai Techaval and Deputy Provincial Governor Natthachai Namphulsuksan co-presided over the opening of the workshop.


The department’s director general said his agency is in charge of study, research and administration of fossils under the Fossils Preservation Act B.E. 2551 in order to preserve fossils for historical, archeological and geological studies. The fossils are to be preserved as the country’s natural heritages. In the eastern region of the country, a dinosaur’s fossils have been discovered at Phra Prong water reservoir in Tambon Chong Kum in Wattana Nakhon district of Sa Kaeo province.


Titannosaurid fossils have been discovered and believed to be in early cretaceous period. Fossils of pelvises of large-sized carnivorous dinosaurs have been found as well as those of other creatures in the same period such as two kinds of crocodile’s teeth, three kinds of turtle, two kinds of fish’s scales and three kinds of shark’s teeth. Since 2002, a total of 62 bones of dinosaurs have been discovered in the compound of Pang Sida national park and found to have belonged to long-necked, long-tailed sauropod dinosaurs which might have been a new species of dinosaur. The department has planned to manage the area where the fossils have been found as a learning center of Sa Kaeo province.

National News Bureau Of Thailand