Dinosaur Fossils in
India
A
team of Indo-German geologists and paleontologists have found fossils of a
135-million-year old herbivorous dinosaur in Kutch, Gujarat, possibly the
oldest such fossil found this century. The fossil belonged to the time when
India and Madagascar were one landmass and the Himalayas yet to form.
Gujarat
is considered to be home to one of the largest collection of dinosaur remains
in India. A large number of dinosaurs eggs have been discovered at Balasinor,
100 km from Ahmedabad, and fossils have been found near the Narmada banks too.
The Kutch Basin, it is believed, was inundated by seawater during the Jurassic
period and these repeated over millennia to throw up an extremely varied
bio-geography.
The
most recent dinosaur fossils from India in this millennium is the “Rajasaurus
Narmadensis”, a 30-feet-long, carnivorous and stocky animal, which was
discovered from the Narmada Valley Basin in Kheda, Gujarat.
What is Jurassic
era?
The
so-called Jurassic era spanned 250-145 million years during which herbivorous
dinosaurs flourished and laid the ground for beasts, such as the Tyrannosaurus
Rex. These flourished during the Cretaceous period —145 to 65 million years ago
— after which the double blows of a meteor strike and overflowing volcanoes are
said to have destroyed these animals.
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