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Globe showing union of India and Madacascar, approx 100 Mya This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from the India n subcontinent or Madagascar . Though widely separated today, the Indian subcontinent and Madagascar were connected throughout much of the Mesozoic and shared similar dinosaur faunas, distinct from ...
Ghughua Fossil Park is a National Park, located near Shahpura in Madhya Pradesh, India, in which plant fossils belonging to 31 genera of 18 families have been identified. [ 2 ] The site was founded during the 1970s by Dr. Dharmendra Prasad, a statistical officer of the Mandla district and honorary secretary of the district archaeology unit.
The eggs and fossils on display here are from the world's 3rd-largest dinosaur fossil excavation site and 2nd-largest hatchery at Raiyoli, Balasinor, Gujarat. [2] The Park was set up by the Geological Survey of India [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is the only dinosaur museum in the country.
A full skeleton of a dinosaur was unearthed in 1959 in Kothapalli-Pochampally village, this fossil has been kept in a museum in Kolkata. [1] Wadadam Fossil Park is half a square kilometer area which is India's first Dinosaurs site, where flora and fauna fossils are found intact.
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits.. Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh is notable for its life-size models of the vertebrates that might have roamed the Sivalik Hills 1.5—2.5 million years ago.
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India accepted the convention on 14 November 1977, making its sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] There are 43 World Heritage Sites in India. Out of these, 35 are cultural, seven are natural, and one, Khangchendzonga National Park, is of mixed type, listed for both cultural and natural properties. India has the sixth-most sites worldwide.
India and Madagascar, though separated by a wide distance today, were connected throughout much of the Mesozoic and shared similar dinosaur faunas, distinct from what has been found on other modern African and Asian landmasses.