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As part of the Star Level Serial Exhibition of Heilongjiang Provincial Museum, a Sinoceras show was opened to public recently in Harbin.

At the star exhibition room what on display is a piece of 2-meter long fossil of a prehistoric marine cephalopods, known as Sinoceras.

Sinoceras are nautiloids, marine cephalopods that possessed a shell. It is an extinct genus of prehistoric nautiloids. Since it is discovered in China the fossils genus is named Sinoceras.

Sino and some other words of the similar pronunciation were originally from cina that adopted by ancient Indian Bharata Dynasty some 3,400 years ago, which generally refers to yellow skin barbarians living to the east of India like the Tibetans, Burmese and Laos. Since ancient Indians had no idea of what China is they just used the word to name China, and later it was learnt by the Persians and thus had been adopted throughout the world.

According to staff of Heilongjiang Provincial Museum, the exhibit on display is currently the largest Sinoceras in China.