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The Indian fossil record of dinosaurs is good, with fossils coming from the entire Mesozoic era – starting with the Triassic period (a geological period that started 251.9 million years ago and continued till 201.3 million years ago), to the Jurassic period (201 million years ago to 145 million years ago) and Cretaceous period (from 145 ...
Tharosaurus (meaning "Thar Desert lizard") is an extinct genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Jaisalmer Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, T. indicus, known from several vertebrae and a rib. Tharosaurus represents the earliest diplodocoid currently known and the first described from India. [1]
The Narmada Human, originally the Narmada Man, is a species of extinct human that lived in central India during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. [1] [2] From a skull cup discovered from the bank of the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh in 1982, the discoverer, Arun Sonakia classified it was an archaic human and gave the name Narmada Man, with the scientific name H. erectus narmadensis. [3]
Wadadam Fossil Park is half a square kilometer area which is India's first Dinosaurs site, where flora and fauna fossils are found intact. Fossils of flora were present at the time when the Sauropods existed in these parts of the Indian Subcontinent. This area was full of forests that had Glossopteris and Dadoxylon conifer trees with the co ...
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.
Barapasaurus (/ b ə ˌ r ɑː p ə ˈ s ɔː r ə s / bə-RAH-pə-SOR-əs) is a genus of basal sauropod dinosaur from Jurassic rocks of India.The only species is B. tagorei.Barapasaurus comes from the lower part of the Kota Formation, which is of Early to Middle Jurassic age.
In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...
Alwalkeria was originally named Walkeria maleriensis by Sankar Chatterjee in 1987, in honor of British paleontologist Alick Walker.However, since the original generic name was found to be preoccupied by a bryozoan, the name Alwalkeria was created in 1994 by Chatterjee and Ben Creisler: the specific name maleriensis is a reference to the Maleri Formation, in southern India, where its fossils ...