Fossil National Park

About Fossil National Park

As proclaimed by its name, this national park is profoundly touched with the fossils of different genes found here before a long prior. This park is situated in the Dindori region, Madhya Pradesh.

In this stop the fossils of the most established plants found in India rough 150 million years prior are protected today.

These fossils were spread over different towns of the zone (particularly seven towns of region Mandla) to be specific Umaria, Deori Kohani, Deorakhurd, Barbaspur, Ghuguwa, Chanti-slopes, and Chargaon.

All out range possessed by this exceptional national park is not more than 274,100 sq mt.

Despite the fact that these sorts of fossils are additionally found in close-by three towns of the region however their region falls outside of the topographical furthest reaches of this park.

The well-known establishment for Palaebotany, named Birbal Sahni Institute Lucknow has finished examination take a shot at the fossils of this region however their report is still in its fundamental stage.

In two towns specifically, Ghuguwa and Umaria, some scared stiff stems of more established trees reserved as Gymnosperms & Angiosperms-Monocotyledons.

A few Bryophytes are additionally found there. There is still a contention that the fossils found there are of which age.

Either the fossils found are pre-Jurassic age or the mid-time of Cretaceous age would have been the right live time of these fossils.

This perplexity is still in light of the fact that amid the separation procedure of a solitary area bit of million years back, the area piece was partitioned by mainland waft and the two-segment of fundamental area space appeared named Laurasia and Gondwana land.

Maybe these fossils will be of the time off in the middle of Cretaceous and Jurassic. These fossils would be of age as indicated by the split of area mass.