Fossil parks in India
The Geological Survey of India 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.
- Mandla Plant Fossils National Park, near Dindori, Madhya Pradesh is a park that attempts to preserve the fossil remains of a primordial forest that covered the region 40—150 million years ago.
The GSI also manages the following fossil parks:
- National Fossil Wood Park, Tiruvakkarai in Tamil Nadu.
- National Fossil Wood Park, Sathanur, in Tamil Nadu
- Dinosaur Fossils National Park, Dhar, Madhya Pradesh
- Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park, Gujarat
- Ghughua Fossil Park, Madhya Pradesh
- Salkhan Fossils Park, Uttar Pradesh
- Akal Wood Fossil Park, Rajasthan
- Amkhoi Fossil Park, West Bengal
- Rajmahal Hills Fossil Park, Bihar
- Wadadham Fossils Park, Wadadam, Sironcha, Gadchiroli, Maharashtra