• 责任者：Fang Xiaosi (Geological Museum of China ; Beijing 100034 ; China) ; Chang Yansheng
• 刊名：Geological Bulletin of China
• 出版年：2011
• 卷期：30(11)
• 关键词：板块碰撞 ; plate collision ; 恐龙类 ; dinosaurs ; 中国 ; China ; 印度 ; India
• 页码：p.1689-1696
• 图表：3 illus., 21 refs.
• 分类号：1103
• 出版序号：20122547
• issnNo：ISSN1671-2552
• isbnNo：CN11-4648/P

There exists more and more evidence that the Indian Plate has collided with the Eurasian Plate twice. The first collision happened two hundred million years ago, by which the Gondwana dinosaur fauna was brought into Asia through the Indian Plate. It was then that the Early Jurassic dinosaurs appeared in China for the first time. It can be accurately said that the dinosaurs in China originated from the first collision of the Indian Plate. The movement eventually led to the formation of Bay of Bengal. 55 million years ago the Indian Plate moved and collided for the second time with the Eurasian Plate in Tibetan area, giving birth to the Himalayas.