Hong Kong Prehistoric Waters(Exhibition was ended)
Before 1980, geologists generally believed the geological history of Hong Kong dated back only to the Permian period (about 200 million years ago). In 1980, however, there was a discovery in Plover Cove that completely changed what we knew about the geological history of Hong Kong – a small piece of fish fossil, believed to be Bothriolepis, an extinct primitive fish, which throve in Devonian period (about 400 million years ago). History was rewritten, placing the starting point of Hong Kong’s geological history at least 400 million years ago instead of 200. Three other primitive fish fossils in Devonian period have been found in Hong Kong: Hongkonggichthys youngi, a fish named after Hong Kong, coelacanths, and Moythomasisa sp. The discovery of these fish fossils proved that Hong Kong probably had an estuarial or a deltaic environment in Devonian period
From 12/12/2011 to 27/2/2012, jointly organized by the Hong Kong Global Geopark of China and Hong Kong Museum of History, an exhibition is to present the public faces of Hong Kong Devonian fishes and another special creature that lived in the Jurassic to Cretaceous oceans – Ammonites, whose arms protruded from its head with a flat spiral shell, through a series of fossils and restoration models, at the Lobby of Hong Kong Museum of History.
Date: 12.12.2011 – 27.2.2012
Venue: Hong Kong Museum of History
Address : 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Free admission
