Shivalik Fossil Park, also known as the Suketi Fossil Park ,[1] is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument [2][3][4] fossil park in the Sirmaur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It has a collection of prehistoric vertebrate fossils and skeletons recovered from the upper and middle Siwaliks geological formations of sandstones and clay at Suketi. The Siwalik ranges are located in the outer Himalayas. The park has a display of the fossil finds and an open-air exhibition of six life-sized fiberglass models of extinct mammals in a recreation of the Sivalik Hills environment of the Plio-Pleistocene era (circa 2.5 million years). A museum, within the precincts of the park curated and exhibits the fossils. Shivalik is Asia's biggest fossil park.[5][6][7] The exhibits in the park are used to generate scientific interest among the public, and facilitate special international studies by visiting research scholars from all over the world.[7]
- ^ Chatterjee 1974, p. 351.
- ^ National Geological Monument, from Geological Survey of India website Archived 12 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Geo-Heritage Sites, Minister of Mines Press release, 09-March-2016
- ^ national geo-heritage of India, INTACH
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- ^ a b Singh & Anand, p. 7.