Definition of "Beipiao"
Beipiao
proper noun
A county-level city in Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Quotations
Jehol has a one-million-ton mine at Peipiao and a new open-cut mine at Fuhsin with a five-million-ton capacity. […] Dairen is a smaller center, as are the coal-mining areas around Penchi, Fuhsin, and Peipiao. […] Coal is also produced in eastern Jehol at Peipiao, and at the new open-cut mine at Fuhsin, 110 miles west of Mukden, where a 60 to 70-meter seam of coal lies beneath a 20-meter overburden.]
, McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., pages 135, 167, 309
Dubbed Mei long, which means "soundly sleeping dragon" in Chinese, the dinosaur was about 21 inches long, or about the size of a large bird. Several features indicate its avian origins.The sleeping skeleton was found near Beipiao City in Liaoning Province.
2004 October 14, “Dinosaur Fossil Found In Sleeping Position”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 05 September 2023, Findings