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Shanshan County (s=鄯善县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Piqan County (; links=no), is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Turpan. It contains an area of , occupying the eastern majority of Turpan. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of .
The county seat is in Shanshan Town.
In 2008–2011, a team of German and Chinese paleontologists discovered and studied an "enormous" accumulation of Jurassic turtle fossils at a site they nicknamed "Mesa Chelonia", approximately NNE of Shanshan Town. It is estimated that at least 1,800 skeletons of freshwater turtles, preliminary identified as belonging to the Annemys species were buried in this bone bed, in a stratigraphic layer probably belonging to the Qigu Formation. The researchers suggest that during a drought the turtles congregating at one of the few remaining water sources, and died there once that last water hole dried out. Then the skeletons were transported to the present location by a debris flow during a catastrophic rainfall event, forming a Konzentrat-Lagerstätte.
According to the paleontologist Walter Joyce, the Shanshan find has more than doubled the total number of Jurassic turtle specimens known to science. The excavated fossils have been transported to Shanshan Town, where they will be housed in the county museum (currently under construction).
On January 6, 2009, five well-preserved mummies of ethnic Han Chinese men who lived during the Qing dynasty were excavated at a construction site near the Flaming Mountains in the county. "Well preserved mummies found in Xinjiang", China Daily
In June 2013, an incident in Lukchun lead to the deaths of dozens.
Subdivisions
Shanshan County is divided into 7 towns, 2 townships, 1 ethnic township and 2 other township-level divisions.
Towns Shanshan Town 鄯善镇 650421100 Chiqtim
(Qiketai Town)七克台镇 650421101 Railway Station Town 火车站镇 650421102 Lianmuqin
(Lianmuqin Town)连木沁镇 650421103 Lükchün Town
(Lukeqin Town)鲁克沁镇 650421104 Pichan Town 辟展镇 650421105 Dighar Town 迪坎镇 650421106 Ethnic township Dungbazar Hui Ethnic Township 东巴扎回族乡 650421201 Townships Tuyuq Township
(Tuyugou Township)吐峪沟乡 650421202 Dalankariz Township
(Dalangkan Township)达朗坎乡 650421203 Township-level divisions Nanshan Mining District 南山矿区 650421400 Shanshan Horticultural Ground 园艺场 650421401
Geography
Biratar Bulak is a spring in the southern part of the county., United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Climate
Demographics
Transportation
Shanshan is served by China National Highway 312, the Lanzhou–Xinjiang Railway and Shanshan Airport.
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