More than 4,300 dinosaur footprints have been discovered in northern China.

The drone footage was filmed in Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province and reveals the prints in the mountainous region.

The footprint fossils, covering an area of more than 9,000 square metres, and the rock layer in which they are located dates back around 150 million years.

Xing Lida, an associate professor at the China University of Geosciences, told local media that the rock layer belongs to the period between the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

While it can be inferred from the footprints that the body length of herbivorous dinosaurs could be more than 15 metres and the body length of carnivorous dinosaurs could reach 4 to 5 metres.

This footage was filmed and produced 11 July 2022.

Aerial photo taken on July 11, 2022 shows the fossil site of dinosaur footprints in Lishi Village, Guocun Town, Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

Recently, Zhangjiakou city found more than 9,000 square meters of dinosaur footprints fossil sites, according to the geological dating shows that these dinosaur footprints in the rock layer has been 150 million years ago, belongs to the Jurassic to cretaceous turn of the era, the large-scale footprint area, currently from the area and number in China are the first.